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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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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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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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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.
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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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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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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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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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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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