Charles P. Steinmetz, the great electrical engineer, was once asked by Mr. Roger W. Babson:
“What line of research will see the greatest development during the next fifty years?”
“I think the greatest discovery will be made along spiritual lines,” Steinmetz replied. “Here is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest power in the development of men. Yet we have merely been playing with it and have never seriously 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 men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been scratched. When this day comes, the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has seen in the past four.”
Charles Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American Mathematician and electrical engineer.
Roger Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967), remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th Century.
