During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple.
Thomas Edison on technology
On his research for the electric light bulb, as quoted in “Talks with Edison” by George Parsons Lathrop, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890)
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