"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
- George Washington Carver 

“The Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries…”
- U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Alva Edison