Thomas A. Edison Quotes - Page 14

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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!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Fashion, Radio, Obvious

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• It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Religion, Atheism

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• 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

  Lying, Giving, Soul

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• 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

  Science, Talking, Machines

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• 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

  Vegetables, Roots, Agents

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• Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Satan, Invention, Interest

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• My mother was the making of me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "Eight dos and don'ts for launching a successful business" by Nick Leech, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2017.

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• 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

  Simple, Men, Discovery

  "Makers of the Modern World: The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

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• The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, War, Discovery

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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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Organization, Priorities, Foundation

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• The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Mom, Mother

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• I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

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• I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Political, Principles, Constitution

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
  We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Engineering, Years

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• As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lifestyle

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• Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Design, Invention

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• Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Bouquets, Inventor

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• 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

  Taken, Discovery, Medicine

  "Wizard Edison". The Newark Advocate, January 2, 1903.

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• I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Doe, Way

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