Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Thomas A. EdisonThe endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
Thomas A. EdisonAfter we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.
Thomas A. Edison