Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

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

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.