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…

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have …

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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…

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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…

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

[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…

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

- Charles Proteus Steinmetz