"I never once made a discovery ......" - Quote by Thomas Edison

“I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.”

“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”

“Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.”

“And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.”

“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.”

“The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”

“I didn’t fail ten thousand times.I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.”