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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Progressive, Invention

  Nikola Tesla (2011). “My Inventions and Other Writings”, p.18, Penguin

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• I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

  Nikola Tesla

  Jealous, Men, Law

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• One day man will connect his
  apparatus to the very wheel work of
  the universe. The very forces that
  motivate the planets in their orbits
  and cause them to rotate will rotate
  his own machinery.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, One Day, Orbit

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• Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

  Nikola Tesla

  Patents, Marconi, Fellows

  "Who Invented Radio?". www.pbs.org.

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• Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Views, Appreciate

  "The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Discovery, Littles

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.

  Nikola Tesla

  Rivers, Lakes, Heat Of The Sun

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• The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Mastery

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Yesterday, Today

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

  Nikola Tesla

  Criminals, Normal, Century

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Work, Sacrifice, Sometimes

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

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• Of all things I liked books best.

  Nikola Tesla

  Book, All Things

  "My Inventions" by Nikola Tesla, (Ch. 1), 1919.

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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Machines

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Heart

  "Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication" by Tim O'Shei, (p. 5), 2008.

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Thinking, Smell

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Law, Rewards

  Nikola Tesla (2007). “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Matter, Environment

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• Inventors don't have time for married life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Married, Married Life, Inventor

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• When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

  Nikola Tesla

  Passion, League, Goal

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

  Nikola Tesla

  Science, Ust, Littles

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• If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sweat, Smarter, Ifs

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• A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Stars, Fall, Eye

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “On Light and Other High Frequency”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

  Nikola Tesla

  Life, Men, Matter

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

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