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1856–1943 Serbia
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian physicist, inventor, and electrical engineer. Born in the Lika region of the Military Frontier (present-day Croatia), he was a subject of the Austrian Empire who later became an American citizen.
Serbia Academics Engineers Physicists Also known as: Nicola Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, Nikola
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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 really worked, is mine.
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
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.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.
Throughout space there is energy. ... it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being.
This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.
Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up...His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
He'll be a child of the storm.
The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me.
Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)
Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
Man's Greatest Achievement (1908)
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Woman's determined competition with man in the business world is breaking down some of the best traditions
Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)
...filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferousether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena.
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