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Quote DB :: Authors :: Thomas Edison :: View Quote View Quote "Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Thomas Edison Listed in: Science Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.58  Rate Quote 12 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Thomas Edison "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "There's a way to do it better - find it." "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." Top 5 quotes from Science "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." "Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" "All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it."

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