Fourier is a mathematical poem.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

To measure is to know.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.

It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.

Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.

I'm not much into speculation.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.