I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.