In Many Ways Ideas Are More Important

Great Steps In Human Progress Are Made By Things That Don't Work The Way Philosophy Thought They Should. If Things Always Worked The Way They Should, You Could Write The History Of The World From Now On. But They Don't, And It Is Those Deviations From The Normal That Make Human Progress.

Why Is The Human Skull As Dense As It Is? Nowadays We Can Send A Message Around The World In One-seventh Of A Second, But It Takes Years To Drive An Idea Through A Quarter-inch Of Human Skull.

Do Not Bring Me Your Successes; They Weaken Me. Bring Me Your Problems; They Strengthen Me.

A Research Problem Is Not Solved By Apparatus; It Is Solved In A Man's Head.

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.