Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.