American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Religion is all bunk.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.