Thomas Edison Quote

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.


Attributed to Edison in: Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979).
Also in: Who Goes There?: What and where is God? (F. H. Revell, 1958), p. 56.
Also in: The Spectator, Volume 242 (F.C. Westley, 1979), p. 28.
This quote may be apocryphal considering the fact it hasn't been found in any of Edison's original works.


The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.