Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.
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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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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.
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I start where the last man left off.
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That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.