From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
NIKOLA TESLAMy mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
More Nikola Tesla Quotes
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Great moments are born great oppurtunity.
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Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
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There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
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Of all things, I liked books best.
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My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
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The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.
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Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
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