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In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.
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A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
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Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
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I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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