The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the… — 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
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost… — 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
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — 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
