A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.

I start where the last man left off.

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

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.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.