Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Eugene Edgerton

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.

April 6, 1903 - January 4, 1990

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

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

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

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

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

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

Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

Harold Eugene Edgerton