If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.