The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
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.
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons.
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Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds.
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I have always been ahead of my time.
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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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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
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If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.
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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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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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Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
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The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.
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I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
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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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In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being
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Inventors don’t have time for married life.
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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
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It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
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All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
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