On February 11th, Edison’s birthday came again. Everyone knows his famous saying: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." However, it is widely spread in China that there is another sentence behind this famous saying: "But the 1% inspiration is the most important It’s even more important than 99% of sweat.” So let’s search. What the American inventor really said is impossible in the Chinese world and not in the English world, so we must look up English. The original English text of the previous sentence: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." There is such a record in the English Wiki Quotes: es. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. None of my inventions happen by chance. When I see a social need that needs to be met that is worthy of people's investment of energy and material resources, I do experiments again and again until it becomes a reality. This ultimately comes down to one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. The first half of this version of the sentence is the same, and the additional half of the sentence means something like "Therefore, a genius is just a smart person who can always do his job well." It doesn’t say “inspiration is more important”. On the English Internet, I cannot find "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine pe