Harold Eugene Edgerton quotes
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“That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.”
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“If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.”
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“The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don’t realize they’re learning until it’s too late.”
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“In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.”
-- Harold Eugene EdgertonSource : Harold Eugene Edgerton, Estelle Jussim, Gus Kayafas (1987). “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
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“Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.”
-- Harold Eugene EdgertonSource : Harold Eugene Edgerton, Estelle Jussim, Gus Kayafas (1987). “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
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“Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.”
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“We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.”
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“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)”
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“Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.”
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Source : "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.
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“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
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“What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!”
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“I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.”
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