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.
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.
Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain.
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.