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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

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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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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 significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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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.
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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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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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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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