Edison Electric Light

Famous quotes containing the words edison, electric and/or light:

    Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    —Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)

    Remember dancing in
    those electric shoes?
    Remember?
    Remember music
    and beware.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
    Empedocles 484–424 B.C., Greek philosopher. The Presocratics, p. 142, ed. Philip Wheelwright, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. (1960)