What you are will show in what you do.

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

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

The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.