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

—Thomas A. Edison

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About Thomas A. Edison

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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...

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

—Thomas A. Edison

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

—Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

—Thomas A. Edison

Play by the rules, but be ferocious.

—Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

—Thomas A. Edison

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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

—Pierre Gallois

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The true definition of science is this: the study of the beauty of the world.

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When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.

—Bernard Bailey

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War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes… as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.

—Adrienne Rich

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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

—Charles Lindbergh

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