I was at the foot of my class.
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.