Science Quote by Nikola Tesla

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to…

— Nikola Tesla

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind…

— Nikola Tesla

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the…

— Nikola Tesla

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking.…

— Thomas A. Edison

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

— Nikola Tesla

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

— Ernest Dimnet

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why…

— Pete Seeger

“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison…

— Daniel Quinn

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training…

— Nikola Tesla

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

“Edison brimmed over with moneymaking ideas for the phonograph. He licensed two Brooklyn men to incorporate it into clocks and watches that would call…

— Mike Wallace

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

— Nathan Fielder