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If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
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.
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.
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.
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.
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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.
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.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
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.
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.
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
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.
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
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.
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.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
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
But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
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.