« All Science Quotes · Thomas A. Edison's Page
Science Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
- 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…
- I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the…
- Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
- 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…
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- 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,…
- I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov