Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
