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.

Do the thing and the power will come.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.