How two giants linked to October 18—Nobel philosopher Henri Bergson and inventor Thomas Alva Edison—illuminated the relationship between creative thought and disciplined action.
October 18 marks both the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher Henri Bergson (born October 18, 1859) and the death anniversary of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (died October 18, 1931).
Where Bergson counseled us to “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought,” Edison demonstrated in his Menlo Park and West Orange laboratories that creative intuition reaches fulfillment only through ninety-nine percent patient perseverance.
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