Harold Eugene Edgerton Quotes

#1. If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#2. In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#3. 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

#4. Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#5. That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#6. We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#7. Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#8. 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