When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . .… — 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 am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air… — 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
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like… — 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
