Occupation: Mathematician Birth: April 9, 1865 Death: October 26, 1923
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have ….
The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought..
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00..
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenev….
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering..
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spa….
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have..
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions..
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultima….
From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers. Phys….
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials..
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interest….
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we k….
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, wh….
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with ….
As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away ….
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something….
Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to….
The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants..
No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience..