Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

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.

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.