Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas Alva Edisonwas an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth11 February 1847
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas A. Edison quotes about
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them....
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
Friendship is the heaven of life.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.