The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work - and also of other scientific work - is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight... The less they know the surer they are about it.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
Energy Medicine...
Steinmetz was one of the top physicists in the world.
My family physician, Dr. Martin, after whom I received my middle name, worked with Steinmetz on energy medicine research before retiring to general practice medicine which for him (like me) meant nutrition and energy medicine...
Here's a story about Steinmetz that illustrates the nature of his genius:
Ford, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having with a gigantic generator, called Steinmetz in to the plant. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. According to Scott, Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.
His famous quote written when asked by Ford to itemize his bill for $10,000 was "Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00 - 2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00."
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, PhD