Genius Is One Percent Inspiration And

Edison made this remark in a spoken statement around 1903, and it was published in Harper's Monthly in September 1932. It became his most quoted formulation and is one of the best-documented of his attributed sayings. Edison applied this philosophy throughout his career at Menlo Park and West Orange, running his inventive laboratory as an industrial process — conducting systematic experiments and treating each result, positive or negative, as useful information.