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One Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- 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…
- If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good…
- It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one…
- After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning…
- The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime…
- You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.
- 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…
- My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
- 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…
- Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one…
- Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in.…
- 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…
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- 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,…
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
- One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find…
- The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of…
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