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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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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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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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As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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