Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
NIKOLA TESLAIf Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.
More Nikola Tesla Quotes
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
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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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We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
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The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
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As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
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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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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.
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I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own
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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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