Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.
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I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.
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I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.
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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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My mother was the making of me.
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I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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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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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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The radio craze will die out in time.