I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Work while others are wishing.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.