Harold Edgerton Quotes & Sayings

We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research. — Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. — Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

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

Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts. — Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun. — Harold Eugene Edgerton