Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 12

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• 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

  Men, Hands, Gold

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• The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Prayer, Law, Perfect

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• Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Wonderful, Foul

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• I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Cheese

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• Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Men, Safe

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• My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Men, Errors

  "Mr. Edison's New Argument from Design". "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, May 3, 1924.

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• To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Beautiful, Brother

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mother, Health, Men

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• Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Genius, Perspiration

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• I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Talking, Determined

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• I didn’t fail ten thousand times.
  I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
  materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Failing, Combination, Thousand

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• I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Want, Monkeys

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hands, Ideas

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• There is no subsitute for hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Hard

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Unreliability, Danger, Tension

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• If there is a better solution... find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Pride, Solutions, Ifs

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• 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

  Hearing, Judgment, Deaf

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• Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Government, Progress, Matter

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• Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, Fishing, Stupidity

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• I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Discovery, Two

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheism, Proud, Weapons

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• I was at the foot of my class.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Class, Feet

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• Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Invention, Perspiration

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