My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration.
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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed, only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.