“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”

“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

“I am looking for a lot of men who have and infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”