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" In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. "
Nikola Tesla
Labor
Will
Robot
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" There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. "
Nikola Tesla
Food
Doubt
Performance
" 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. "
Nikola Tesla
Wander
Today
Reality
" Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. "
Nikola Tesla
Man
Force
Like
" I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers. "
Nikola Tesla
Matter
Globe
How
" The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines. "
Nikola Tesla
Water
Struggle
Power
" There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli. "
Nikola Tesla
Faculty
Memory
Impression
" The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. "
Nikola Tesla
Better
Truth
Science
" In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. "
Nikola Tesla
Reading
Perfection
Time
" The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. "
Nikola Tesla
Sea
Waves
Human Being
" Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents. "
Nikola Tesla
Branches
Most
Interesting
" I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. "
Nikola Tesla
Name
Great
Inventions
" I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. "
Nikola Tesla
Success
Sleep
Man
" If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. "
Nikola Tesla
Intelligent
Power
Poverty
" The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. "
Nikola Tesla
Difficult
Opinion
Marriage
" By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. "
Nikola Tesla
Company
Long
Irony
" 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. "
Nikola Tesla
Insane
Clearly
Today
" It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. "
Nikola Tesla
Know
Evolution
Results
" I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me. "
Nikola Tesla
Me
Air
Colorado
" I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. "
Nikola Tesla
Meat
Practically
Myself
" As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. "
Nikola Tesla
Motion
Will
Wave
" We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will. "
Nikola Tesla
Wind
Simple
Play
" The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. "
Nikola Tesla
Me
Feeling
Greeting
" With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights. "
Nikola Tesla
Ideas
Life
Climb
" There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. "
Nikola Tesla
Great
Conflict
Man
" Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance. "
Nikola Tesla
Distance
Influence
Living
" All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed. "
Nikola Tesla
Feelings
Knowledge
Sense
" The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. "
Nikola Tesla
Ideas
Man
Work
" The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. "
Nikola Tesla
Survival
Nature
Law
" Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. "
Nikola Tesla
Live
Work
Only
" The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists. "
Nikola Tesla
War
Process
Purpose