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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas A. Edison
Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration, Talking, Determined

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Hands, Ideas

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Thomas A. Edison
Failing, Combination, Thousand

There is no subsitute for hard work.

Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work, Hard

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

Thomas A. Edison
Government, Progress, Matter

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

Thomas A. Edison
Hearing, Judgment, Deaf

If there is a better solution... find it.

Thomas A. Edison
Pride, Solutions, Ifs

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

Thomas A. Edison
Light, Discovery, Two

Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

Thomas A. Edison
Lying, Fishing, Stupidity

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Nature, Laughter

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Thomas A. Edison
Atheism, Proud, Weapons

I was at the foot of my class.

Thomas A. Edison
Class, Feet

Religion is all bunk.

Thomas A. Edison
Atheist, Religion, Atheism
"What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Sweet, Children

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

Thomas A. Edison
Book, Would Be, Speech
"The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

Thomas A. Edison
Light, Able, Next

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

Thomas A. Edison
Atheist, If There Is A God, Fake
"What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Love, Inspirational, Success

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Thomas A. Edison
Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Thomas A. Edison
Baseball, Football, Games

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.

Thomas A. Edison
Educational, Believe, Years

If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.

Thomas A. Edison
Country, Money, Differences
"Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

Thomas A. Edison
Stupid, Thinking, People

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

Thomas A. Edison
Success, Science, Long

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