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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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My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
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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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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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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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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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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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I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
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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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There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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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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Of all things I liked books best.
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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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There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.
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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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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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Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
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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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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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