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(July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943) ', ', ', and ' Verified 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. Source: "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934. I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. Source: Brooklyn Eagle, July 10th, 1931. As soon as [the Wardenclyffe facility is] completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place ... Source: "The Future of the Wireless Art", Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, 1908, pg. 67-71. It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. Source: Quote from "Wardenclyffe — A Forfeited Dream" Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." Source: American Institute of Electrical Engineers address, 1891. So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ... Source: "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means Of Furthering World Peace". Electrical World And Engineer, January 7, 1905. If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. [...] I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. Source: New York Times, October 19, 1931. The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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. Source: "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934. As a son of my homeland I feel it is my duty to help the city of Zagreb in every respect with my advice and work. Source: lecture about alternating current given in Zagreb in 1892. Attributed The working [of the Extra Coil] was excellent with 1/4 wavelength. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter -- for the future. His duty is to lay foundation of those who are to come and point the way. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. [Invention] is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly -- not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. The last 29 days of the month are the hardest. I am proud of my Croatian motherland and Serbian descent, long live Yugoslavia!
Verified 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. Source: "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934. I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. Source: Brooklyn Eagle, July 10th, 1931. As soon as [the Wardenclyffe facility is] completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing, or print can be transferred from one to another place ... Source: "The Future of the Wireless Art", Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, 1908, pg. 67-71. It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. Source: Quote from "Wardenclyffe — A Forfeited Dream" Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." Source: American Institute of Electrical Engineers address, 1891. So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ... Source: "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means Of Furthering World Peace". Electrical World And Engineer, January 7, 1905. If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. [...] I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. Source: New York Times, October 19, 1931. The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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. Source: "Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World". Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934. As a son of my homeland I feel it is my duty to help the city of Zagreb in every respect with my advice and work. Source: lecture about alternating current given in Zagreb in 1892. Attributed The working [of the Extra Coil] was excellent with 1/4 wavelength. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter -- for the future. His duty is to lay foundation of those who are to come and point the way. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. [Invention] is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly -- not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. The last 29 days of the month are the hardest. I am proud of my Croatian motherland and Serbian descent, long live Yugoslavia!