Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy. Thomas A. Edison More Quotes by Thomas A. Edison More Quotes From Thomas A. Edison Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. Thomas A. Edison bookyearsschool 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. Thomas A. Edison stupidpeoplethinking Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple. Thomas A. Edison simplediscoverymen I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph. Thomas A. Edison machinestalkingscience Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. Thomas A. Edison attributescenturymen 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 indulge-inreadingbook The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead. Thomas A. Edison soulgivinglying 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. Thomas A. Edison unreliabilitytensiondanger Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless. Thomas A. Edison medicinetakendiscovery The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me. Thomas A. Edison mommothermotivational I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work. Thomas A. Edison lightdoeway It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise. Thomas A. Edison governmentcountrypeople I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! Thomas A. Edison phrenologytalentstranger Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! Thomas A. Edison obviousradiofashion I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made. Thomas A. Edison deedsmademen The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. Thomas A. Edison agentsvegetablesroots I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. Thomas A. Edison monkeyswantscience Interest is the invention of Satan. Thomas A. Edison inventionsataninterest To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. Thomas A. Edison philosophyhistoryart In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world. Thomas A. Edison creatingtechnologywisdom
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