[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

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.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

Stupid is not illegal.

In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.