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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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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Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
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Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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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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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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There is time for everything.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas A. Edison
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
Thomas A. Edison
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
Thomas A. Edison
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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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.
Thomas A. Edison
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. Edison
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
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
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.
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