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Nikola Tesla
Age: 86 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 10
Died: 1943
Died: January 7
Electrical Engineer
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Mechanical Engineer
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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
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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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There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment
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When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
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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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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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Be alone, that is the secret of invention be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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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 practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
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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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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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Of all things I liked books best.
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Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
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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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I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
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