Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
Charles Proteus SteinmetzMarking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
Charles Proteus SteinmetzThe most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.
Charles Proteus SteinmetzThe scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.
Charles Proteus SteinmetzMathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz