EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H.L. Mencken, U.S. writer, editor, and critic, 1880-1956Evolution: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA : I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.