I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

It was almost painful to be different.

I never share credit or desserts.

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.