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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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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.
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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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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
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Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
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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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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.
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Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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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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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
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Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
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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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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
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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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My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
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