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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 Polaroid Camera] Places Before You A Thing That Is More Of The Thing Than The Thing Was.

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.

I Say That Our System Of Tests And Grades, As It Now Exists, Is One Source Of The Low Yield Of Great Men From Our Universities. The Marking System Is A Traumatic Experience From Which Most Students Emerge With A Deep Determination Never To Get Into A Situation Where They Can Be Marked Again. They Just Won't Ever Again Take A Chance.

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.