We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Thomas EdisonQuoted in Golden Book magazine (1931)
About Thomas Edison
American inventor of the phonograph and a practical electric light bulb. (1847-1931)
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- Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.Confirmed by Edison in Harper's Monthly (1932)
- Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948)
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003); no primary source
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- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Isaac Newton
- I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
- To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
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