“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
“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.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
“Of all things, I liked books best.”
“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
into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between
individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of
egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval
barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of
universal enlightenment...”
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his
work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I
have really worked, is mine”
“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.”
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and
they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a
structure which has no relation to reality. ”
“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”
“Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.”
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not
expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is
like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the
foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and
labors and hopes.”
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.”
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment
and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful
realization.”
