Thomas Edison

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Thomas Edison

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Thomas Edison

When there’s no experimenting there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

Thomas Edison

When you become quiet, it just dawns on you

Thomas Edison

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Thomas Edison

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools… Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

Thomas Edison

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

Thomas Edison

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that the listeners do not perceive.

Thomas Edison

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort.

Thomas Edison

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It’s too dangerous… it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas Edison