A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.