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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Edwin Land

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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