Science Will Stagnate If It Is Made

The Ideals Which Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed To The Empty. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts — Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury—have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

You See, Wire Telegraph Is A Kind Of A Very, Very Long Cat. You Pull His Tail In New York And His Head Is Meowing In Los Angeles. Do You Understand This? And Radio Operates Exactly The Same Way: You Send Signals Here, They Receive Them There. The Only Difference Is That There Is No Cat.

Whoever Is Careless With The Truth In Small Matters Cannot Be Trusted In Important Affairs.

As An Elderly Man, I Have Remained Estranged From The Society Here.

When We First Got Married, We Made A Pact. It Was This: In Our Life Together, It Was Decided I Would Make All Of The Big Decisions And My Wife Would Make All Of The Little Decisions. For Fifty Years, We Have Held True To That Agreement. I Believe That Is The Reason For The Success In Our Marriage. However, The Strange Thing Is That In Fifty Years, There Hasn’t Been One Big Decision.