Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.