It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

Of all things I liked books best.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.