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• Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted…
• The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of…
• Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the…
• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved…
• The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have…
• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow…
• Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction,…
• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
• A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all…

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