Charles Proteus Steinmetz

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers.…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem,…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz