a boner for thomas edison

in 2007 i developed a major crush on benjamin franklin after my visit to philadelphia. in the year two thousand ot eight, i have a raging boner for thomas edison. i'm not sure what it is about these inventors that turn me on. is it wrong to crush out on a dead man?


here's a sample of my favorite edison quotes:

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." this is from 1931! if only he were alive today. :`(

"I have always found, when I was worrying, that the best thing to do was put my mind upon something, work hard and forget what was troubling me."

"Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me—the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love—He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us—nature did it all—not the gods of the religions."

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge."

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."


the dude was brilliant (a major understatement, of course). in addition to inventing the light bulb and the phonograph, he was also a total babe...