Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'