Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.