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Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

«Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.»
«The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Opportunity | Keywords: overalls, wearing
«I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.»
«If there is a way to do it better...find it.»
«Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: invent
«Religion is all bunk.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | About: Religion | Keywords: bunk
«I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God»
«Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.»
«The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: appalled

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