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.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

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.

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

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

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.