In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

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

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.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.