Thomas A. Edison Quotations | Page 2

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them....

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Friendship is the heaven of life.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

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

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!