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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
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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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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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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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Nikola Tesla |
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It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive -- blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence -- by want of..
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
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Nikola Tesla |
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My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of o..
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universe
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nature
spirit
religion
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ethics
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materialism
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Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.
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Nikola Tesla |
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I had a veritable rnania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, "Never more!"
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Nikola Tesla |
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.
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invention
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Nikola Tesla |
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As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.
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Nikola Tesla |
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter--for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
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future
work
science
foundation
scientist
results
ideas
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Nikola Tesla |
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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tesla
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Nikola Tesla |
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One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane
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Nikola Tesla |
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
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Nikola Tesla |
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instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Let one concentrate all his energies in one single great effort, let him perceive a single truth, even though he be consumed by the sacred fire, then millions of less gifted men can easily follow. Therefore it is not as much quantity as quality of work which determines the magnitude of the progress.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.
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Nikola Tesla |
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
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Nikola Tesla |
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We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
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Nikola Tesla |
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To gain your energy from the right sources means you gain more energy from less; reducing the retarding factors means you have less friction that wastes your energy; focusing your motive power towards the direction of the collective human movement means you use others' energy to boost your energy. Gain more energy, waste less energy, spend the energy so next time you'll need less to achieve more. Increase human mass, reduce retarding force,..
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Nikola Tesla |
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One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was caused by a cloud cutting off the rays of the sun.
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Nikola Tesla |
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a telephone subscriber here may call up and talk to any other subscriber on the Globe. An inexpensive receiver, not bigger than a watch, will enable him to listen anywhere, on land or sea, to a speech delivered or music played in some other place, however distant.
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Nikola Tesla |
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One's salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering,--in the hope that some one, no matter who, may find a solution of one of the pending great problems,--and each succeeding day we return to our task with renewed ardor; and even if we are unsuccessful, our work has not been in vain, for in these strivings, in these efforts, we have found hours of untold pleasure, and we have directed our energies to the benefit of mankind.
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Nikola Tesla |
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.
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Nikola Tesla |
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These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
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Nikola Tesla |
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War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.
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Nikola Tesla |
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I counted the steps in my walks and calculated the cubical contents of soup plates, coffee cups and pieces of food otherwise my meal was unenjoyable.
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Nikola Tesla |
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In 1924, Nikola Tesla was asked why he never married? His answer was this: "I had always thought of woman as possessing those delicate qualities of mind and soul that made her in her respects far superior to man. I had put her on a lofty pedestal, figuratively speaking, and ranked her in certain important attributes considerably higher than man. I worshipped at the feet of the creature I had raised to this height, and, like every true wors..
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Nikola Tesla |
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Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our mind with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which ... we designate as human life. Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its in
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Nikola Tesla |
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I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
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Nikola Tesla |
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I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and Croatian homeland.
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Nikola Tesla |
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Never trust a Jew!
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