"It's fake. It was written by another foreigner, not by Edison himself.
Supplementary investigation on "Edison's famous words have been tampered with"
Author: wind and rain
Because of an accidental opportunity, I saw a "flying midge" netizen on New Threads, which was published one after another recently.
Two posts, "Out of context" and "gild the lily" (XYS2007 12 13), "Edison's name
The text has been tampered with "the truth continues to be investigated" (XYS2007 1226). What we want to investigate is a small network company.
Case-Edison's famous words were tampered with.
Fei Zhi has found out the accusation that China tampered with Edison's famous words in the textbook.
Originated from an unsigned article of Sohu Education Channel on July 18, 2005, one of the key paragraphs said
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First of all, I want to seriously resist the Ministry of Education's repeated tampering with Edison's famous saying about "genius"-
We all thought it was a "genius", that is, 1% inspiration and 99% sweat. Of course, this sentence itself does not.
Someone has been stolen, but the textbook only misses the key sentence at the back every time: "But the inspiration of 1% is:"
The most important thing is even more important than the 99% sweat. "As you can see, without the last sentence,
The meaning of the whole sentence has completely changed. Edison was a genius, of course. He also believed in genius (he used to have many geniuses).
Call Ford a "genius"); He holds a "conditional recognition" attitude towards genius.
Is the most important, but genius also needs hard work. Edison admitted hard work, but in the final analysis, he paid more attention to inspiration.
China's textbooks never have this first sentence, which is equivalent to completely denying the meaning of inspiration.
This article has been circulating on the Internet for some time, and some people believe it. However, there are many domestic midges.
Kung fu investigation has basically found out that the following two web pages may be the original source of misinformation:
/articles _ sterling _inspiration.htm
/cy sterling/article inspiration . htm
Unfortunately, the previous link failed. The last link begins like this:
Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and.
99% perspiration. "
No one percent inspiration, all the sweat.
The world is just a bucket of sweat. So where did writers find these?
The most important inspiration? An informal survey revealed the following
Source: ... (omitted)
In other words, the accusations in Sohu's article are purely "replacing trees with flowers" and "making things out of nothing". Put it aside for a while.
People put words on Edison, and then accused China of tampering with famous words in textbooks. (Of course, this is not excluded.
Anonymous authors misread other people's articles or were misled by other rumors. )
This midge does her homework well. But judging from the post, it seems that midges still have some clues to find.
A little skeptical. I'm here to give you a hand and provide two proofs.
One: "Without that one percent inspiration, all of it.
The sweat in the world is just a bucket of sweat. "This passage is really beautiful.
What Cindy Myers, a contemporary female writer in China, said, not what Edison said. In addition to the above pages, you can also
In the book Dharma Moment (Dan Ai Chan Chao Chai, 2006, ISBN: 1857883853).
Get circumstantial evidence in the preface:
Yes, when we are looking, sometimes we really need to work hard.
The answer, but as writer Cindy Myers pointed out in fashion, "No.
One percent inspiration, all the sweat in the world is just.
A bucket of sweat. "(Prapai Kraisornkovit, page 17)
Secondly, Cindy Myers' pen name is Cynthia Sterling. So, the two links that midge found,
In fact, they all point to the same name, Sterling. The following brief introduction comes from Cindy Myers' personal website:
Cindy sold her first novel on 1997. Writing as Cynthia Sterling,
She has written seven historical legends for Berkeley and Kensington before.
Turn to contemporary novels. In 2006, her 25th book will be published.
Has been released.
In other words, the second half of Edison's famous saying was regarded as really belonging to an anonymous author.
Cindy Myers. At this point, the case of "Edison's famous words were tampered with" should be over!