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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Thomas A. Edison
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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.
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I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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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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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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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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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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Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.
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My mother was the making of me.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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