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.
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On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999), p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 ; also in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001), p. 230 ISBN 0743215362