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The Quotable Edison by Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Albion, Michele Wehrwein is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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From The Dust Jacket: The Quotable Edison Offers A Wealth Of Insightful, Enlightening, And Sometimes Humorous Comments And Witticisms From Thomas Edison (1847-1931), A Man Famous For His Dictum That Genius Is One Percent Inspiration, Ninety-nine Percent Perspiration. He Seemed Always Ready With A Clever Word Or Phrase. On Religion, Satan Is The Scarecrow Of The Religious Cornfield; On The English, The English Are Not An Inventive People; They Don't Eat Enough Pie; On The Secret Of His Success, I Start Where The Last Man Left Off; On Work, I've Been Working Two Shifts Most Of My Life. Lots Of Other Men Work Two Shifts Too, But They Devote The Other One To Poker; On The Law, A Lawsuit Is The Suicide Of Time; On Philosophy, I Believe That Life, Like Matter, Is Indestructible; On Vacations, Florida Is About As Near To Heaven As Any Man Can Get; On Vice, Whatever A Man Likes He Will Have A Tendency To Overdo. Variously Called A Magician, The Wizard Of Menlo Park, And The Napoleon Of Science, He Was A Prolific Inventor And The Holder Of Hundreds Of Patents. But He Was Also A Practical Joker, A Self-made Man With A Certain Disdain For Polite Society, An Ambitious Explorer, And A Public In

Author

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Albion, Michele Wehrwein

Publisher

Gainesville: University Press of Florida

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813035598

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

4.7 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14