Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A.… — 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 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
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
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — 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
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
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
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the… — 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
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
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
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