I get my ideas from listening from within.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….