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Famous Entrepreneurs - Thomas Edison
Famous inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison founded the Edison Electric Light Company following his invention of the electric light bulb. His inventions, including the phonograph and the light bulb, greatly influenced American culture as well as paved the way for a whole new technological era throughout the world.
Thomas Edison Quotes:
"Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in
the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of
disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows
us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the
million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.
The doctor of
the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the
care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of
disease.
They may even discover the germ of old age. I don't predict it, but it
might be by the sacrifice of animal life human life could be prolonged.
Surgery, diet, antiseptics — these three are the vital things of the
future in preserving the health of humanity. There were never so many
able, active minds at work on the problems of diseases as now, and all
their discoveries are tending to the simple truth — that you can't
improve on nature."
- On Medicine
"I
consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced,
and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and
Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his
principles."
- On Thomas Paine
"In
Common Sense Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the
Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and
in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again."
- On Thomas Paine
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- On Hard Work
"None
of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met
and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is
one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
- On Inventing
"My
mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in
error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it."
- On Spirituality
"It is very beautiful over there."
- Edison's Last Words
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