| |  | | | | | 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 | | Quotes: 61 - 73 of 73 | Pages: First Previous 1 2 3 4 | | | | | | | | There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking | | Uncategorized | | | | | There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. | | Uncategorized | | | | | They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. | | Uncategorized | | | To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. | | Uncategorized | | | To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. | | Uncategorized | | | We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. | | Uncategorized | | | We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb | | Uncategorized | | | What man's mind can create, man's character can control. | | Uncategorized | | | When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. | | Uncategorized | | | You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. | | Dreams | | | | | | | |
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