An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Education isn’t play – and it can’t be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
My mother was the making of me.
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
The dove is my emblem.
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries – discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother’s keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience.
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
Friendship is the heaven of life.
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.