I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

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

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.