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Not only will atomic power be...

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I owe my success to the fact ...

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I will not say I failed 1000 ...

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

It is absurd to say that our ...

It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Nature is what we know. We do...

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

To me, the idea and expectati...

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am quite correctly describe...

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

We are like tenant farmers ch...

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

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A reporter called on Edison t...

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Genius is 1 percent inspirati...

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I have determined that there ...

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

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I speak without exaggeration ...

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I did not fail two thousand t...

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

The real measure of success i...

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Until man duplicates a blade ...

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

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My main purpose in life is to...

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

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None of my inventions came by...

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

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Nobody knows whether our pers...

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am long on ideas, but short...

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Not only will atomic power be ...

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

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