“It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!”

— Edwin H. Land

Speaking at Columbia University, as quoted in The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (1992), p. 537
Context: We have not found anti-intellectualism a problem at the Polaroid Corporation, except in the very initial state of penetration. It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

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American scientist and inventor 1909–1991

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