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World Quotes by Nikola Tesla
- Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and…
- Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of…
- Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
- It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
- It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
- Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives…
- It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded…
- Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
- The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
- 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…
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