Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.
Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
