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One Quotes by Nikola Tesla
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result…
- When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
- When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
- For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony…
- The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
- Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
- 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…
- The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate…
- I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only speak of when…
- Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my…
- Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.
- 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.
- Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I…
- The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
- 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…
- I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted…
- 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…
- My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one…
- The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be…
- I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter…
- The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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