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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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I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

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Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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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 a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

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Inspirational, Art, Looks

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I have always been ahead of my time.

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My Time

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

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I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

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Grateful, Path, Theory

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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

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Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

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Air, Space, Trying

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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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Science, Technology, Goal

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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe

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Brain, Receiver, Universe

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In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

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Principles, Crystals, Existence

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.27, Adventures Unlimited Press

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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Opening Up, Intellectual, Ignorant

Nikola Tesla, Neil Thomas (2017). “Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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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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Inspirational, Men, Creative

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The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

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Lasts, Months

Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.59, eKitap Projesi

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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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Inspirational, Nature, Reality

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

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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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Song, Simple, Land

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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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Pride, Community, Understanding

Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

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Inspirational, Smartphones, Brain

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (1993). “The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, p.232, Adventures Unlimited Press

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Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

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May, Way, Results

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Illustrated Tesla”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

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May, Masters, Mines

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Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved.

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Believe, Space, Soul

Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.93, Lulu.com

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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. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.

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Real, Mistake, Exercise

Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.10, Lulu.com

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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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Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Thinking, Insanity, Curiosity

"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 193.

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All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

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Should Have, Energy, Source

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That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

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Mistake, Ideas, Mind

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