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• The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

  Nikola Tesla

  Accurate, Shows, Foresight

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Distance, Spheres

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

  Nikola Tesla

  Motivational, Success, Future

  Nikola Tesla, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Nikola Tesla Quotes... Vol. 3: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Nikola Tesla”

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Humanity, Secret, Genius

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Running, Ideas, Differences

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Moving, Heart, Light

  "The Nikola Tesla Treasury".

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Powerful, Women, Civilization

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Reading, Mean, Perfection

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Connections, Facts, Planets

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

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Wheels, External Influences, Engines

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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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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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Taken, Hard Work, Science

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Lamps, Electric Current, Brightness

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Race, Passing Away

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Father, Reading, Book

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Blood, Ideas

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Simple, Views, Space

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Blessing, Views

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

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

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

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• So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Problem

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

  Nikola Tesla

  War, Mean, Perfection

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  Nikola Tesla

  Discovery, Years, Giving

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• It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Succeed, Machinery

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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