When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas A. EdisonNineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
Thomas A. EdisonBecause ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Thomas A. Edison