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Nikola Tesla Inspirational Quotes (99)

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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
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From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.
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Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
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I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.
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Of all things I liked books best.
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Inventors don't have time for married life.
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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
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The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
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It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
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We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
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Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.
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It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
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One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment
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