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- I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait til oil and…
- 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 never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the…
- It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
- 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…
- 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…
- We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind…
- Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
- I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
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