There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.


Thomas A. Edison

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of fu...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing ov...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the hu...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides a...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the ...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
All Bibles are man-made
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
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Vision without execution is hallucination.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-i...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then h...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment an...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON