Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

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.