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
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk.
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.
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.
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
I think work is the world's greatest fun.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.