A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.