Accidents Quote by Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

— Plato

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

— Thomas A. Edison

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

— Thomas A. Edison

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.…

— Thomas A. Edison

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

— Julie Newmar

Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical…

— Paul Flory

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to…

— Tom Scholz

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there…

— Henry Bessemer

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in…

— Woody Norris

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what…

— Thomas A. Edison

Mostly all famous inventions start off as an accidents. For instance, my invention of running over cats.

— Nikhil Saluja