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After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

Thomas A. Edison
Trying, Done, Way

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

Thomas A. Edison
Believe, Men, Mind

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

Thomas A. Edison
Made
"'No Immortality of the Soul' says Thomas A. Edison. In Fact, He Doesn't Believe There Is a Soul - Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells and the Brain Only a Wonderful Machine, Says Wizard of Electricity". New York Times, October 2, 1910.

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Purpose, Want

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

Thomas A. Edison
Way, Causes

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

Thomas A. Edison
Tired, Science, Giving

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

Thomas A. Edison
Past, Men, Thinking

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

Thomas A. Edison
Suicide, Lawsuit

No Such Thing as Bad Results

Thomas A. Edison
Results

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration, Ninety Nine, Needs
"Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James D. Newton, 1987.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Being Positive

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

Thomas A. Edison
Religious, People, Atheism

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

Thomas A. Edison
Kindness, Quality, And Love
New York Times, October 2, 1910.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas A. Edison
Dream, Men, Safe

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Hallucinations, Execution

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Education, Work

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

Thomas A. Edison
Twenties, Four, Facts
"Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

Thomas A. Edison
Men, Wonderful, Foul

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

Thomas A. Edison
Trying, Cheese

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Believe, Men, Errors
"Mr. Edison's New Argument from Design". "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, May 3, 1924.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

Thomas A. Edison
Ideas, Good Ideas, Values

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Thomas A. Edison
Selfish, Believe, Religion

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Beautiful, Brother

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration, Genius, Perspiration

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