The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

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.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.