1. Unknown - “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

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2. Thomas J. Watson - “A tribute, published October 22, 1931, to Thomas Alva Edison upon his death: More than any other man, Mr. Edison lifted us out of the material surroundings of the Middle Ages. For most part, his inventions were spectacular in that they served to effect th”

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3. Thomas J. Watson - “A tribute, published October 22, 1931, to Thomas Alva Edison upon his death: THE passing of Thomas Alva Edison serves to direct our attention to the multitude of benefactions he bestowed upon all humanity during his many years of fruitful activity. It reminds us of the debt of gratitude we owe him as members of the human race. By his achievements, he laid the foundation for continued and greater development. His persistent efforts and indefatigable spirit multiplied many times the valuable opportunities for man, especially the young man. To each and every young man, Mr. Edison left a legacy of opportunities.”

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4. Unknown - “If it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight.”

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5. Pollack - “My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted or hung on a wall in his room. In effect, the sentence was: 'It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.' That is tragically true. Some of us think, more of us think we think, and most of us don't even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world.”

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6. Jeffrey R. Holland - “Thomas Edison devoted ten years and all of his money to developing the nickel alkaline storage battery at a time when he was almost penniless. Through that period of time, his record and film production company was supporting the storage battery effort. Then one night the terrifying cry of 'Fire!' echoed through the film plant. Spontaneous combustion had ignited some chemicals. Within moments all of the packaging compounds, celluloid for records, film, and other flammable goods had gone up in flames. Fire companies from eight towns arrived, but the heat was so intense and the water pressure so low that the fire hoses had no effect. Edison was sixty-seven years old - no age to begin anew. His daughter was frantic, wondering if he was safe, if his spirit was broken, how he would handle such a crisis at his age. She saw him running toward her. He spoke first. He said, 'Where's your mother? Go get her. Tell her to get her friends. They'll never see another fire like this as long as they live.' At five-thirty the next morning, with the fire barely under control, he called his employees together and announced, 'We're rebuilding.' One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area, another to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then, almost as an afterthought, Edison added, 'Oh, by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money?' Virtually everything we now recognize as a Thomas Edison contribution to our lives came after that great disaster.”

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7. John Hogan - “Responding to a charge by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspector that two Dresden Nuclear Plant operators were sleeping on the job: It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.”

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8. Newt Gingrich - “If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as 'candle making industry threatened.'”

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9. Thomas Alva Edison - “Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.”

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10. Thomas Alva Edison - “There is no substitute for hard work.”

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11. Thomas Alva Edison - “None of my inventions came by accident—they came by work.”

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12. Thomas Alva Edison - “We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

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13. Thomas Alva Edison - “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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14. Thomas Alva Edison - “There is almost no limit to which man will not go to avoid thinking.”

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15. Thomas Alva Edison - “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

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16. Thomas Alva Edison - “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.”

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17. Thomas Alva Edison - “A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy: 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”

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18. Thomas Alva Edison - “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.”

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19. Thomas Alva Edison - “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

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20. Thomas Alva Edison - “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”

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21. Thomas Alva Edison - “There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meet—and that is the first requisite of business.”

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22. Thomas Alva Edison - “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.”

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23. Thomas Alva Edison - “I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

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24. Thomas Alva Edison - “It is very beautiful over there.”

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25. Thomas Alva Edison - “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.”

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