104 Quotes by Edwin Land

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved,

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.

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.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

The present is the past biting into the future.

Don't do anything that someone else can do.