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Inventions Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by…
- 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…
- Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
- My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and…
- My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
- This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
- The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington
- Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Unknown Author
- Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier
- As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken
- Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between… — Clifford Stoll
- We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer
- Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson
- Necessity, the mother of invention. — George Farquhar
- ... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden