[LINK] GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

Stilgherrian stil at stilgherrian.com
Wed Feb 28 19:29:05 AEDT 2007


On 28/2/07 6:31 PM, "rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au" <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>
wrote:
> An aside, possibly apocryphal:
> Ediston: "Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration."
> Tesla: "He wouldn't have to do so much perspiration if he would just
> learn the math."

This is the closest find in Wikiquote, can see that the apocryphal version
is a fair paraphrase.:

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with
the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the
object of his search. [...] I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing
that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of
his labor.

New York Times (19 October 1931)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

HTH,

Stil


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