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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.

Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

I have always been ahead of my time.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

I don't care that they stole my idea . I care that they don't have any of their own

Of all things, I liked books best.

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.

All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

Great moments are born great oppurtunity

Science is but a perversion of itself
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ...

The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth ...

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.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether ...

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering - only expensive - blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

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.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.