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.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.