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By Thomas Edison
Stuff! I tell you genius is hard work, stick-to-it-iveness, and common sense.
- Source
- Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, vol. 2, 1910 · Vol. 2, chapter on Edison's method in inventing, p. 607 (printed page number, seen)
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- Harper and Brothers, New York and London (Internet Archive scan of the 1910 first edition)
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Edison's reply when E. H. Johnson, in a conversation at the laboratory with Edison and Charles Batchelor, spoke of Edison's genius, as reported in Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin (Harper and Brothers, 1910). The authors give no date beyond "many years ago".