It Is A Curious Property Of Research

I Submit To You That When In Each Man The Dream Of Personal Greatness Dies, Democracy Loses The Real Source Of Its Future Strength.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

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.

Why Do I Want To Believe What I Believe?... Science, To Put It Somewhat Vulgarly, Is A Technique To Keep Yourself From Kidding Yourself.

Photography Is Unlike Any Other Art Form. In The Other Arts There Is Always A Continuous Interplay Between The Artist And His Art. He Has The Painting Or Sculpture Before Him. What We Have Tried To Do Is To Provide A Medium For "artistic Expression" To Anyone With Only A Reasonable Amount Of Time. By Giving Him A Camera System With Which He Need Only Control His Selection Of Focus, Composition And Lighting, We Free Him To Select The Moment And To Criticize Immediately What He Has Done. We Enable Him To See What Else He Wants To Do On The Basis Of What He Has Just Learned.