I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

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

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.