Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.