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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

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Nikola Tesla
Age: 86 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 10
Died: 1943
Died: January 7
Electrical Engineer
Inventor
Mechanical Engineer
Physicist
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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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One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted though later, of course, I learned this was not so.
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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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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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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.
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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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Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.
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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
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Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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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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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
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If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
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My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
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