“As we have already noted, the joyful emotion associated with the act of discovery is so great that it is easy to understand the sublime madness of Archimedes. Historians tell us that he was so beside himself after solving a profound problem that he burst forth almost naked from his house exclaiming the famous Eureka, [...]
“To pursue fully the topic of our research with the limited facilities that we have, let us forget unrelated pursuits and the parasitic ideas connected with the futile trifles of everyday life. Using strength and perseverance, concentrate deeply only on information pertinent to the question at hand. During the gestation period of our work, sentence [...]
“When an associate came to him one day and in forthright language declared that a long series of tests had proved negative and that whole venture was a waste of labor and money, Edison rounded on him and cried angrily, ‘Is that all you have to say for yourself?’ and then walked out of the [...]