Quotes from: Nikola Tesla

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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

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Inventors don’t have time for married life

1196

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 to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers

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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born

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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

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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 of human nature to human needs

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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 mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it

1070

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists

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

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I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own