Quote

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Thomas A. Edison

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
Businessperson
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Film Director
Inventor
Lighting Designer
Mathematician
Physicist
Screenwriter
Milan
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Edison
Edison Thomas Alva
Afraid
Assistant
Arms
Assistants
Came
Practically
Use
Rays
Lost
Experiments
Science
Stopped
Dally
Two
Near
Eyesight
Years
Losing
Experimenting

More quotes by Thomas A. Edison

Image
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.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
The value of a good idea is in using it.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
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.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
Thomas A. Edison
Image
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
Thomas A. Edison