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Thomas Edison
(11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931)
American inventor who was known internationally as “the Wizard of Menlo Park,” for the huge number of innovations coming from there, the world's first industrial research laboratory.
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Thomas Edison Quotes on Genius (5 quotes)
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
— Thomas Edison
As quoted in 'The Anecdotal Side of Edison', Ladies Home Journal (Apr 1898), 8.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
— Thomas Edison
In Life (1932).
Genius is two percent inspiration, ninety-eight percent perspiration.
— Thomas Edison
Francis Arthur Jones, The Life of Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor’s Life (1932), 371.
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.
We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.
— Thomas Edison
Letter printed in Engineering Magazine (Jan 1917), cover. Quoted in an article by Meyer Bloomfield, 'Relation of Foremen to the Working Force', reproduced in Daniel Bloomfield, Selected Articles on Employment Management (1919), 301.
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
— Thomas Edison
As quoted in 'The Anecdotal Side of Edison', Ladies Home Journal (Apr 1898), 8.
See also:
- 11 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Edison's birth.
- Thomas Edison Quote “Mary Had A Little Lamb” - Illustrated quote with Tinfoil Phonograph - Large 800 x 600px
- The Talking Phonograph - Thomas Edison's invention of his tinfoil phonograph - article in Scientific American (22 Dec 1877) - with illustrated quote, medium 500px.
- Thomas Edison Quote “Something there was no doubt of” - Illustrated quote + tinfoil phonograph engraving 800px
- Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-Rays - from New York World (3 Aug 1903).
- Thomas Edison - context of quote “Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.” - Medium image (500 x 350 px)
- Thomas Edison - context of quote “Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.” - Large image (800 x 600 px)
- First Thomas Edison Lamp Factory - from Edisonia (1904)
- Thomas Edison Quote “Something there was no doubt of” - Illustrated quote + tinfoil phonograph engraving 500px
- Thomas Edison Quote “Mary Had A Little Lamb” - Illustrated quote with Tinfoil Phonograph - Medium 500 x 350px
- 1 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of opening of Edison's Menlo Park lamp factory.
- Edison: A Biography, by Matthew Josephson. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Thomas Edison.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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