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 will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
If there is a better solution... find it.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Nature made us... nature did it all... not the gods of the religions.
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
All bibles are man-made.