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By Thomas Edison
The only way to keep ahead of the procession is to experiment. If you don't, the other fellow will. When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
- 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. 617 (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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Said by Edison one night after Mr. Mason, superintendent of the cement plant, gave him a satisfactory report of progress, as told in Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin (Harper and Brothers, 1910). The authors give no date.