Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.