Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Religion is all bunk.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.