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

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

Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

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.

We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.