Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

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.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.

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.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.