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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.

— Nikola Tesla Mr. Tesla Explains Why He Will Never Marry (1924)

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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.

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