461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!

It is very beautiful over there. (last words)

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.

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.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others....

M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.