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- Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result…
- I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever…
- The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not…
- We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be…
- I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
- If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the…
- 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…
- Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that…
- There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment
- Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
- From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in…
- We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
- All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
- A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual…
- Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my…
- Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli…
- Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and…
- All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from…
- My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated…
- The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this…
- Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction…
- The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
- From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
- I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
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