"I have been so absorbed in my work that I have neglected my personal life."

"The human being is a self-propelled automaton, and I am the biggest one in the world."

"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind."

"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.'"

"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precise…"