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Quotations by author » Thomas Alva Edison
Most famous American Inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world record 1.093 patents. In addition, he created the world's first industrial research laboratory, 1847-1931
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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles
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I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
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If there is a way to do it better...find it.
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If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Ideas
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
FailureLife
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
Maturity
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.
Opportunity
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Ideas
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Ethics
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