Woodhouse-isms

"If you're not looking at what may happen 20 years ahead, you're behind the times."

A liberal education is not a pleasant luxury for a scientist; it is a necessity. A future scientist should take as much English as he can get. He must learn to be articulate and develop imagination and intuition. Technical skills are incomplete without that."

Hard work will solve any problem."

Henry Ford was resistant to buying anything from anybody." (on General Motors, not Ford, getting the first hydraulic brake fluid from DuPont).

It is often more difficult to get a product used than it is to make it." (on his 1930 development of methacrylate polymer, a crystal clear plastic which years later was re-discovered as lucite).

I use stories as a teaching tool. People remember stories."

Often it is the men with training unrelated to the problem who, from their broad background, come up with an answer and then put it across by their ability with words."