There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
— Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas A. Edison
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
— Thomas A. Edison
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
— Thomas A. Edison
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
— Bob Edwards
Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
— Bob Edwards
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
— Bob Edwards
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
— Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
— Albert Einstein
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
— Evan Esar