“It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance.”

There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed.

The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.

On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world.

I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

It is a question of sometimes choosing what is – in your own mind – of material importance and what isn’t, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.

But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

The squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.