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Firsts Quotes by Nikola Tesla
- 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…
- His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
- 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…
- I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever…
- In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
- 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…
- The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in…
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