I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe