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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

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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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With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.
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But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
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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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To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.
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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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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 progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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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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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
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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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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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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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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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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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