Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Youth doesn't take advice.
Edison, Thomas A. The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison. Edited by Dagobert D. Runes, Philosophical Library, 1948.
Bailey became a lifelong enemy of the President’s as a result of this statement.
In a sense he was the first establishment victim of the student demonstrations of 1968. He called the police to eject the student demonstrators from the buildings they were occupying.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory.
