They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Absorb ideas from every source.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.