"The world is not yet ready for my inventions."

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

"I have always been much interested in the question of women's physical and mental superiority, and have found that women are the stronger sex."

"In crystal we have a pure evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and although in spite of everything we cannot understand the life of crystals - it is still a living being."

"Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed o…"