Quotes
"If this does not appeal to you sufficiently to recognize in me a discoverer of principles, do me, at least, the justice of calling me an "inventor of some beautiful pieces of electrical apparatus."
"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors"
"The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead."
"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."
"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
"The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power."
"Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them."
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
"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."
"I don't care that they stole my idea.... I care that they don't have any of their own."
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors"
"The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead."
"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."
"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
"The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power."
"Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them."
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
"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."
"I don't care that they stole my idea.... I care that they don't have any of their own."
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."