"My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to carry on more experiments."

"So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk."

"I am not a believer in the theory of evolution. I believe in the theory of creation."

"I owe my success to the fact that I never had a watch. I never knew what time it was, so I never stopped working."

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and sola…"