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1898·Menlo Park, United States

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

Read the passage→Edison: His Life and Inventions, Chapter XXIV: The Phonograph and Its Echoes

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