I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.