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There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

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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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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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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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Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia all force tends to persist
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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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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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Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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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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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.
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The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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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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All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
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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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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
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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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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
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