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• The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

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  Electric Power, Oil, Needs

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• You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

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  Men, May, Horror

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• Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

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  Perfect, Balance, May

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

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  Perception, World, Minutes

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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  Civilization, Progress, Dormant

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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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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  Future, Engineering, Brain

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• The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

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  Reality, Thinking, Insane

  "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

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• In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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  Slave Labor, Civilization, Twenties

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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  Substance, Matter, Primaries

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• Great moments are born great opportunity.

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  Moments, Born, Oppurtunity

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

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  Each Day, Discovering

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Illustrated Tesla”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

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  Medicine, Rose, Rays

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• What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

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  Men, Law, Physics

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• Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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  Change, Dream, Future

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 73), 1999.

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• It’s not the love you make. It's the love you give.

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  Love You, Giving

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• The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

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  Real, Doe, World

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• Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

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  Stars, Thinking, Ties

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

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  Mother, Men, Effort

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• Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

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  Sacrifice, Effort, Energy

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.2, Lulu.com

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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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  Sound, Doe, Use

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• All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

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  Struggle, Past, Human Stupidity

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

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  Men, Law, Study

  Thomas Commerford Martin, Nikola Tesla (1894). “The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting”

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• Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

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  Cat, Giants, Strokes

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