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To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.

Nikola Tesla
Men, Mind, Desire
"Man's Greatest Achievement". "The New York American" Journal, July 6, 1930.

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

Nikola Tesla
Simple, Engineering, Doubt
Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Nikola Tesla
Fate, Drawing, Long
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

Nikola Tesla
Attitude, Sunshine, Ideas
Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

Nikola Tesla
Running, Uncles, Fall

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

Nikola Tesla
War, Numbers, Years
Nikola Tesla (2013). “A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers and Other Essays”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

Nikola Tesla
Change, Science, Unique

Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.

Nikola Tesla
Knowledge, Science, Intelligent
Nikola Tesla (2016). “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.115, eKitap Projesi

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla
Men, Discovery, Ideas
Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

Nikola Tesla
Years, Different, Submarines
Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.634, Simon and Schuster

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

Nikola Tesla
Struggle, Exercise, Men
Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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.

Nikola Tesla
Sight, Profound, Vision
Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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