Harold Eugene Edgerton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Research #Hell
If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Morning #Three #Wake Up
The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they donâ€™t realize theyâ€™re learning until itâ€™s too late.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#People #Too Late #Way
In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Photography #Inspiration #Way
Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Artist #Facts #Engineers
Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Fun #Hell #Deals
We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Research #Knows
When I was a boy, I read with great interest but skepticism about as magic lamp which was used with success by a certain Aladdin. Today I have no skepticism whatsoever about the magic of the xenon flash lamp which we use so effectively for many purposes. (1970)
-- Harold Eugene Edgerton

#Xenon #Boys #Magic

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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