Thomas A. Edison Brain Quotations

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

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.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

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