potential Quotes

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.