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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
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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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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