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I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.

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Running, Ideas, Differences

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If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

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Humanity, Secret, Genius

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. A bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

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Mean, Thinking, Smell

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I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

Nikola Tesla

Mean, Air, Ions

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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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Life, Men, Matter

Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.78, Courier Dover Publications

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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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Powerful, Women, Civilization

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

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I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

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Simple, Views, Space

"New York Herald Tribune" Newspaper, September 11, 1932.

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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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Reading, Mean, Perfection

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

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We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There mart be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then; with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expand our minds, strengthens our hopes and and fills our hearts with supreme delight.

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Moving, Heart, Light

"The Nikola Tesla Treasury".

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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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Connections, Facts, Planets

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

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Work, Sacrifice, Sometimes

Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.77, Lulu.com

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The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

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Mean, Men, Air

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

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Wheels, External Influences, Engines

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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

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Loss, Views, Effort

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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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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Mean, Blessing, Views

Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

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Men, Race, Passing Away

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.22, Adventures Unlimited Press

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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. He lives and labors and hopes.

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Taken, Hard Work, Science

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.74, Adventures Unlimited Press

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Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

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Inspirational, Life, Science

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No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

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Zero, Future, Moon

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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

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Men, Ideas, Space

"Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency". Nikola Tesla's Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, February 1892.

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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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Father, Reading, Book

Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.8, Lulu.com

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When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

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Real, Distance, Smartphones

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

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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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Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

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

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I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

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Lamps, Electric Current, Brightness

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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Nikola Tesla

Past, Men, Law

"A Machine to End War" by Nikola Tesla, 1937.

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Born: July 10, 1856
Died: January 7, 1943
Occupation: Inventor
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