Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

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

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!