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My definition of electricity is invisible light.
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I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and Croatian homeland.
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The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
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I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth...
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
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So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...
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As a son of this country [Croatia], I consider it my duty to help the City of Zagreb in every way, either through counsel or through action.
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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.
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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.
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Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
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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.
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The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.
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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.
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows.
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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.
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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.
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus
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Born:
July 10, 1856
Died:
January 7, 1943
(aged 86)
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