{"product_id":"the-quotable-edison-9780813035598","title":"The Quotable Edison","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michele Wehrwein Albion\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Quotations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe voice of the man who turned on the lights for the world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Edison dispensed his opinions on every topic from microbes to the meaning of life.\"--Thomas Graham, author of \u003ci\u003eFlagler's St. Augustine Hotels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Michele Albion gives us a treat by carefully peeling back time and history to expose Thomas Edison's complex, and beautiful natural wood grain. You will laugh, ponder, and ruminate about the great man and his views; and his observations about life, technology and the future. It certainly is an interesting read.\"--John P. Keegan, president and chair of the Charles Edison Fund, Edison Innovation Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In times when the phrase techno-wizard means the latest Web sensation, the greatest wizard of them all comes to life again in this collection.\"--Joy Wallace Dickinson, author of \u003ci\u003eRemembering Orlando\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thomas Edison was the \"Wizard of Menlo Park.\" A prolific inventor and holder of numerous patents, he was also called a \"magician,\" \"the Napoleon of Science,\" and the \"Inventor of the Age.\" But he was also a practical joker, a self-made man with a certain disdain for polite society, an ambitious explorer, and a public intellectual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Quotable Edison\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wealth of his insightful, enlightening, and sometimes humorous comments and witticisms on a wide range of subjects, from business to politics, from religion to nutrition, from advice to boys to opinions on women's clothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Famous for his dictum that \"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration,\" Edison offered many other gems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - On religion, \"Satan is the scarecrow of the religious cornfield.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- On the English, \"The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- On work and business, \"I've been working two shifts most of my life. Lots of other men work two shifts too, but [they] devote the other one to poker.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- On the law, \"A lawsuit is the suicide of time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd his reported final words: \"It's very beautiful over there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMichele Wehrwein Albion\u003c\/b\u003e, curator of the Edison and Ford Winter Estates from 1992 to 1997 and former curatorial staff at the United States Holocaust Museum, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Florida Life of Thomas Edison\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Dover, New Hampshire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45409810612375,"sku":"9780813035598","price":1806.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813035598.webp?v=1767311917","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-quotable-edison-9780813035598","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}