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.

The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.

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.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

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

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

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