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List of Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 345 inspiring quotes by Thomas A. Edison.

About Thomas A. Edison

  • Born: February 11, 1847
  • Died: October 18, 1931
  • Occupation: Inventor
    • It is the people who constitute the basis of government credit. why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. if the united states government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.
    Country Government People
    The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. satan's principal agent dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
    Vegetables Roots Agents
    Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. it is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
    Fashion Radio Obvious
    I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
    Light Doe Way
    Interest is the invention of satan.
    Satan Invention Interest
    Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. medicine is played out. every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
    Taken Discovery Medicine
    I am afraid of radium and polonium ... i don't want to monkey with them.
    Science Want Monkeys
    I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
    Unreliability Danger Tension
    It is the best book ever written on the subject. there is nothing like it!
    Book Religion Atheism
    It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
    Years Two Flying
    I told [kruesi] i was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. he thought it absurd. however, it was finished, the foil was put on; i then shouted "mary had a little lamb," etc. i adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. on first words spoken on a phonograph.
    Science Talking Machines
    The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. when this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.
    Lying Giving Soul
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