“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

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.

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

The butterflies in my stomach were devouring my organs. The feeling wasn’t mutual.

God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.