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I have always been ahead of my time.

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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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Nicola Tesla
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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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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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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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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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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
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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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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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It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.
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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
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Of all things I liked books best.
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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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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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
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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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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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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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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
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