Thomas Edison: American inventor of the phonograph and the practical light bulb, 1847 to 1931.
Thomas Edison · Quote Investigator finds Edison quoted with this ratio from 1901 and with "two per cent inspiration" as early as 1898; the familiar spelled-out form appeared in Harper's Monthly in 1932.
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