Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
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 scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences