If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.