Sunshine Is a Form of Energy, and the Winds and the Tides Are Manifestations of Energy Electricity ought to be as cheap as oxygen, for it can not be destroyed.īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order.Ĭontinue reading We Should Utilize Natural Forces and Thus Get All of Our Power. “There must surely come a time when heat and power will be stored in unlimited quantities in every community, all gathered by natural forces. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. “Oh, no we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power.
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“When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves until then we are tailless orang-outangs. It is just the old, foolish Prometheus idea, and the father of Prometheus was a baboon. This scheme of combustion in order to get power makes me sick to think of-it is so wasteful. Edison believed that burning wood and coal was shortsighted, and he was excited by a vision of collecting and storing what is now called renewable energy. Quote Investigator: In 1910 influential publisher Elbert Hubbard printed an interview with Thomas Edison in his journal “The Fra”. He wanted to replace the burning of fuels with the collection of natural energy from the sun, wind, and tides.ĭid Edison really express this viewpoint? Would you please explore this topic? Thomas Edison? Elbert Hubbard? Apocryphal?ĭear Quote Investigator: The famous inventor Thomas Edison supposedly foresaw the potential of solar energy more than one hundred years ago. Here is a sampling of pertinent sayings with dates:ġ890 Jun: No man can be wholly defeated unless he defeat himselfġ904 Feb 6: Human beings never fail until they fail to tryġ910 Jun 1: You have never been defeated until you give upġ912 May 30: You are never defeated until you lose faith in yourselfġ918 May 2: You are not defeated unless you admit defeatġ921 Apr 28: You’re never defeated until you surrenderġ922 Jul 15: You are never defeated unless you admit it to yourselfġ930 Jun 28: No absolute failure until you stop trying to succeedġ930 Dec 4: You are never defeated unless you think you areġ931 Aug 14: You are never defeated unless you defeat yourselfġ937 Nov 27: You are never defeated until you stop tryingġ946 Oct 11: You’re never defeated unless you admit it to yourselfġ951 Dec 13: You are never a failure until you stop tryingġ959 Dec 22: You never lose until you stop tryingġ967 Dec 7: You never fail until you stop tryingīelow are selected citations in chronological order.Ĭontinue reading You Never Fail Until You Stop Trying Posted on AugAugCategories Albert Einstein, Florence Griffith Joyner, Thomas Edison Tags Albert Einstein, Elmer Burritt Bryan, Florence Griffith Joyner, Louise Chandler Moulton, Mike Ditka, Thomas Edison We Should Utilize Natural Forces and Thus Get All of Our Power. QI believes that the creator should be considered anonymous. This adage is difficult to trace because it is a member of a large and ever evolving family of sayings. Einstein died in 1955, and he received credit for the remark many years afterward in 2012. It is not listed in the comprehensive reference “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein” from Princeton University Press.
Quote Investigator: There is no substantive evidence that Albert Einstein wrote or spoke this statement. This saying has also been credited to the Olympic-medal-winning athlete Florence Griffith Joyner and the well-known inventor Thomas Edison. Albert Einstein? Florence Griffith Joyner? Thomas Edison? Louise Chandler Moulton? Mike Ditka? Elmer Burritt Bryan? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: The following motivational remark has been attributed to the famous scientist Albert Einstein:
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