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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the competitor Thomson-Houston Electric Company resulted in the formation of General Electric. Edison registered 1,093 patents in the United States.

Quotes from Thomas Edison

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him.

—Thomas Edison

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

—Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won't work.

—Thomas Edison

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

—Thomas Edison

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

—Thomas Edison