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"30 Nikola Tesla Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 July 1856. Died: 7 January 1943 | Inventor |

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Find Universe Secret Energy
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nikola-tesla-quotes

Virtue Failings Inseparables Force
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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 have really worked, is mine.
Future Truth Evaluate Work
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The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Harness Waterfall Economic Energy
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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.

Attitude Dizzy Height Climb
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Perishable Science History Revealed
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Robot Century Place Slave
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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Feeling Constantly Growing Hear
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Childhood Clergy Prospect Hung
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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 through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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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 have really worked, is mine

Future Truth Evalute Accomplishment
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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 speed and power.

Blaze Civilisation Ever Feeble
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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.

Clearly Deeply Insane Instead
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

After Build Equation Eventually
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By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Before Chief Company Drawing
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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 to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Admired Artists Creations Gives
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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.

Any Better Create Desired
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Branches Currents Dealing Electrical
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As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Branches Currents Ebb Electric
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We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Allow Bring Connections Delight
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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.

Affected Being Distance Engine
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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Based Designate Faculty Impression
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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 years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Ahead Always Applied Basic
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The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

Cabinet Culture Far Holds
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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 permitted to produce progeny.

Among Certainly Desirable Difficult
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Been Great Inventions Made
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I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

Abstain Also Meat Myself
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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 how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Any Convert Crucial Globe
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Nikola Tesla Quotes & Sayings