Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once
made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved
were those of invention, pure and simple.
- The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his
patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and
prevention of disease.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be
in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a
soul may be is beyond my understanding.
I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power!
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions?
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I'll show you a failure.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world.
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. ... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious
ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a
personal God.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Quotes about Edison
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once
with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he
found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such
doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved
him ninety percent of his labor.
~ Nikola Tesla
