Quote#Science & Reason
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and…
Quote byThomas Edison · 1847–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 295.
English (original)
We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter." Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.
— Thomas Edison
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