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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
Physicist
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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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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
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Inventors don't have time for married life.
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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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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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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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
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I have always been ahead of my time.
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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
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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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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
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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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Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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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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The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.
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