Thomas Edison

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

Thomas Edison

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.

Thomas Edison

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

Thomas Edison

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Thomas Edison

The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder – deserted, motionless, dead.

Thomas Edison

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

Thomas Edison

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Thomas Edison

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Thomas Edison

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Thomas Edison

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Thomas Edison