Thomas Edison

The inventor can’t do it all, you’ve got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.

Thomas Edison

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Thomas Edison

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man’s brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

Thomas Edison

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Thomas Edison

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

Thomas Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Tomorrow is my exam but I don’t care because a single sheet of paper can’t decide my future

Thomas Edison

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Thomas Edison

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

Thomas Edison