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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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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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Of all things I liked books best.
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
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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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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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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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I have always been ahead of my time.
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So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.
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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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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
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What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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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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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.
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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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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
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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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