Thomas Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas Edison

Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.

Thomas Edison

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

Thomas Edison

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

Thomas Edison

I believe in the existence of a supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Thomas Edison

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

Thomas Edison

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Thomas Edison

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

Thomas Edison

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Thomas Edison

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Thomas Edison