Edwin Land Quotes

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.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

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.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

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

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.