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

- 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

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

- 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 ske…

- Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

- Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

- Harold Eugene Edgerton

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

- Harold Eugene Edgerton