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Years Quotes by Thomas A. Edison
- 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…
- X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally,…
- I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced…
- A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
- I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not…
- It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the…
- Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work…
- The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do…
- 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…
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