461 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

I am much less interested in what is called God’s word than in God’s deeds. All bibles are man-made.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder – deserted, motionless, dead.

I love great music and art, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It’s their ‘ideas’ that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as ’more of a sponge than an inventor.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.