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- I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the…
- I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong.…
- It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that…
- I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
- First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.
- Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
- Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made…
- Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than…
- The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I…
- I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available…
- Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work…
- I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized…
- A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison…
- Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows…
- People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more…
- To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect…
- During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were…
- I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable…
- Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must…
- If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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