Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

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.

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.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

IF YOU WISH TO BRING PEACE UPON YOUR OWN, YOU MUST FIGHT THOSE WHO WISH FOR THE SAME PEACE.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

God understands how you feel and has faced what you face.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.