As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

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

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.