Any Problem Can Be Solved As Long

An Invention That Is Quickly Accepted Will Turn Out To Be A Rather Trivial Alteration Of Something That Has Already Existed.

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.

Over The Years, I Have Learned That Every Significant Invention Has Several Characteristics. By Definition It Must Be Startling, Unexpected, And Must Come Into A World That Is Not Prepared For It. If The World Were Prepared For It, It Would Not Be Much Of An Invention.

A Mistake Is An Event, The Full Benefit Of Which Has Not Yet Been Turned To Your Advantage.

The Role Of Science Is To Be Systematic, To Be Accurate, To Be Orderly, But It Certainly Is Not To Imply That The Aggregated, Successful Hypotheses Of The Past Have The Kind Of Truth That Goes Into A Number System.