Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!