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From Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of…
- I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
- The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on…
- Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without…
- 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…
- From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain…
- I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
- 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…
- The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do…
- 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…
- Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before…
- There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man,…
- Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with…
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