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

"I am a man of science, not a politician."

"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization."

"With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life a…"

"The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs."