Nineteen 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. EdisonI did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
Thomas A. EdisonWhen I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison