Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

Of all things I liked books best.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.