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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.


Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.
KIMBAL MUSK Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made ...
KIMBAL MUSK I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smel...
NIKOLA TESLA If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical ...
GEORGE GAMOW Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
CRAIG BRUCE Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th...
KIMBAL MUSK Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in it...
ANNIE BESANT the emission and reception of signals by Marconi by means of electric oscillations is nothing new. I...
ALEXANDER POPOV If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science ...
RUDY RUCKER David Bowie is playing Nikola Tesla, who invented alternating current and I am playing Igor to his F...
ANDY SERKIS In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. —NIKOLA TESLA, ...
GRAHAM MOORE Soil scientists predicted this improvement more than a decade ago, ... and it has shown us that foll...
DANIEL MARKEWITZ She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies b...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions.
WILLIAM JAMES When I was a kid, I thought I had my life figured out. I knew where I was going. I was sure of whom ...
CRISTINA MARRERO It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole ...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. W...
DAN RATHER Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture ...
LOUISE ARBOUR There are more people dead than alive; we all will be in the majority one day.
VIKRANT PARSAI Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measureme...
BRUCE LIPTON There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent...
JOSS WHEDON The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he mi...
PAUL C. NAGEL In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL This is going to be one of the biggest scandals that has hit Washington in more than a decade.
ALEX KNOTT All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLD When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE One day of accomplishment is better than a decade of wastage
ETC WANYANWU Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER The fourth one was incredibly, much more so, much more physical than the first ones. It's I think si...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of oth...
AUGUSTE COMTE I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studi...
SUN YAT-SEN Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti...
BLAISE PASCAL The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it m...
GREG WERNER Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it m...
GREG WERNER This spacecraft will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.
JAMES GRAF Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is tr...
ALBERT CAMUS Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to st...
ROBERT D. HARE The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, f...
UNIVERSAL JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was m...
ROBIN WASSERMAN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in th...
BLAISE PASCAL In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress...
SERGEI LAVROV Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS The Nikkei 225 had shed more than half the gains it added in its previous rally, so it was a good ti...
HIROICHI NISHI Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY ...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the huma...
ALFRED DE VIGNY The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of t...
JOSEPH HALL Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the ma...
HENRIK FISKER I'll study the science of division...And divide to make my offspring.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to scien...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to scie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, wh...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, w...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste t...
WALTER S. LANDOR Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracte...
EMILE DURKHEIM This is going to be a wonderful resource for us. It will fit in well to improve the health of the ki...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY , Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a treme...
JOHN GOTTMAN The Pressure-
Maybe one day,
after centuries,
we can become brilliant gems
in c...
KEELIE BREANNA Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, p...
CRISS JAMI Europe is ready to strengthen its dialogue and cooperation in line with progress made in human right...
JACQUES CHIRAC Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different ...
NIKOLA TESLA In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the in...
ALMA GLUCK It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can b...
ALLAN REX SANDAGE Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any exi...
STANISLAV GROF The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislat...
JOHN ADAMS To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to t...
JEFFERSON DAVIS No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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NIKOLA TESLA I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
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NIKOLA TESLA If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
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NIKOLA TESLA The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...
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NIKOLA TESLA I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...
NIKOLA TESLA If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...
NIKOLA TESLA His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered t...
NIKOLA TESLA The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
NIKOLA TESLA Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...
NIKOLA TESLA Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the const...
NIKOLA TESLA My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once build...
NIKOLA TESLA Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected o...
NIKOLA TESLA Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and ...
NIKOLA TESLA The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to acc...
NIKOLA TESLA Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The ...
NIKOLA TESLA If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is ne...
NIKOLA TESLA I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...
NIKOLA TESLA We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water,...
NIKOLA TESLA We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wo...
NIKOLA TESLA Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.'...
NIKOLA TESLA There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed ...
NIKOLA TESLA As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry,...
NIKOLA TESLA The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet...
NIKOLA TESLA There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior ...
NIKOLA TESLA The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
NIKOLA TESLA It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absol...
NIKOLA TESLA The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame,...
NIKOLA TESLA The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...
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NIKOLA TESLA The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Wil...
NIKOLA TESLA With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are a...
NIKOLA TESLA In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civ...
NIKOLA TESLA Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstand...
NIKOLA TESLA The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one ...
NIKOLA TESLA The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every househ...
NIKOLA TESLA There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is ...
NIKOLA TESLA If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee...
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NIKOLA TESLA Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no m...
NIKOLA TESLA I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of...
NIKOLA TESLA Our virtues and failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
NIKOLA TESLA Of all things, I liked books best.
NIKOLA TESLA If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
NIKOLA TESLA If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee...
NIKOLA TESLA Nossas virtudes e nossos sentimentos são inseparáveis, assim como força e matéria. Quando se sep...
NIKOLA TESLA The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concetrate our minds on that truth,...
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NIKOLA TESLA The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude o...
NIKOLA TESLA I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
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NIKOLA TESLA It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was h...
NIKOLA TESLA One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
NIKOLA TESLA I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one...
NIKOLA TESLA Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite oc...
NIKOLA TESLA I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smel...
NIKOLA TESLA We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today ...
NIKOLA TESLA My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strengt...
NIKOLA TESLA The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important produ...
NIKOLA TESLA All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to dist...
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NIKOLA TESLA All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all...
NIKOLA TESLA Perhaps if you were to refrain from deploying the phrase ‘ignorant
buffoon’ with a liberali...
VINNIE TESLA Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no m...
NIKOLA TELSA If you are thinking whether to cry or laugh, cry.
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