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" The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun. "
Nikola Tesla
Sun
Energy
Drawing
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" Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. "
Nikola Tesla
Man
Force
Like
" We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. "
Nikola Tesla
City
Water
Roads
" When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight. "
Nikola Tesla
Sight
High
Nothing
" 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
" 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
" Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. "
Nikola Tesla
Light
Science
True
" 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
" 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
" I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. "
Nikola Tesla
Name
Great
Inventions
" 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
" The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. "
Nikola Tesla
Year
Office
Important
" The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. "
Nikola Tesla
Political
New
Back
" 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
" 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
" The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. "
Nikola Tesla
Mighty
Fire
Flame
" In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. "
Nikola Tesla
Labor
Will
Robot
" 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
" Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. "
Nikola Tesla
More
Nature
Us
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind. "
Nikola Tesla
Cloud
Been
Mind
" I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. "
Nikola Tesla
Meat
Practically
Myself
" 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 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
" 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
" Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. "
Nikola Tesla
Nature
Sun
Future
" 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