After 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. EdisonI do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
Thomas A. EdisonThe great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
Thomas A. EdisonIf we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison