I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
