Harold Eugene Edgerton

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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.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: People
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In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: Photography
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That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: Funny
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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 Edgerton
Collection: Artist
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Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: Fun
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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.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: Morning
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We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: 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)
- Harold Eugene Edgerton
Collection: Xenon