The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

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

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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