There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.

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