104 Quotes by Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

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.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?

The bottom line is in heaven!

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.