"Until man duplicates a blade of grass,..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“An idea is something that won't work unless you do.”

“The dove is my emblem.”

“I was at the foot of my class.”

“The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.”

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

“But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.”

“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.”

“No science ever defends its first principles.”

“If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.”