There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!
—Thomas Edison
An enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a
dissolving pattern,
always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one.
—Sir Charles Sherrington, describing the brain
Well done is better than well said.
–Ben Franklin
Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you
do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.
—Alexander Graham Bell
To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.
—Benjamin Franklin 14
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a
failure.
—Thomas Edison
Errors using inadequate
data are much less than those using no data at all.
—Charles Babbage
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in
turmoil.
—Thomas Edison
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know.
And, sooner or later, I patent most of them.
—Thomas Edison
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
—Charles Kettering
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of
an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born
of our tenacity of life—our desire to go on living… our dread of
coming to an end.
—Thomas Edison
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