The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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 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
Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.… — 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
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
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
