More from Thomas Alva Edison

  1. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  2. I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
  3. As quoted in 'Wizard Edison' in The Newark Advocate (2 January 1903), p. 1 according to reasearch by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson at snop…
  4. 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. What…
  5. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and …
  6. We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energ…
  7. During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieve…
  8. There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

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