Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.


Charles Edison

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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousan...
THOMAS A. EDISON
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep t...
THOMAS A. EDISON
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Hell, there are no rules here,we are trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
THOMAS A. EDISON
I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.
THOMAS A. EDISON