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• To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Desire

  "Man's Greatest Achievement". "The New York American" Journal, July 6, 1930.

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• It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

  Nikola Tesla

  War, Numbers, Years

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers and Other Essays”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Knowledge, Science, Intelligent

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.115, eKitap Projesi

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• Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Air, Numbers, Space

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.57, eKitap Projesi

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Moving, Sea

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.123, Courier Dover Publications

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• By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fate, Drawing, Long

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

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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. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Years, Vivid Imagination

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sight, Profound, Vision

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Important

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

  Nikola Tesla

  Years, Different, Submarines

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.634, Simon and Schuster

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• The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

  Nikola Tesla

  Change, Science, Unique

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