I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.