I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
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.
My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth...
Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Inventors don’t have time for married life.
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.
Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.
My brain is only a receiver in the Universe.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
I have always been ahead of my time.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.