Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.