Did Thomas Edison say “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”?

Did Thomas Edison say “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”?

Not found in the corpus. We did not find this sentence in any of 13,826 works of the corpus, including the texts we hold by Thomas Edison. That does not prove it was never said; it means no written source in our library contains it. Treat the attribution as unconfirmed.

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