(天才是一分的天份，加上九十九分的後天努力)的由來

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932)Variants:None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton.Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one per centinspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his orher homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."