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Conversation at the store:
"You should really stock more cat litter this time of year."
"You mean for people to keep in their cars for traction?"
"Yeah, and the cats drink more when they're depressed."
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Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943) was one of the great
geniuses of the early electrical age. His invention of the alternating
current motor set the stage for the power and lighting systems now used
every day around the world. Educated in Austria, Nikola Tesla emigrated
to New York in 1884, where he found work with Thomas Edison. Edison
worked with direct current, but Tesla favored a system he called
alternating current, and soon enough the two inventors clashed and
became rivals. Tesla went to work for George Westinghouse, and
alternating current ultimately became the most widely-used system of
public power. Tesla patented over 700 inventions, making major
contributions to the fields like radio, remote control, and public
lighting. The Tesla Coil, a gadget which projects lightning-like bolts
and sparks in spectacular fashion, remains a popular feature in science
museums around the world. His well-known phobias and eccentricities
(including an increasing fear of germs) were winked at without scorn,
thanks to his successes. Always better at science than finance, Nikola
Tesla spent his last years in seclusion at the New Yorker hotel in
Manhattan, and is now regarded as an underappreciated genius. (via
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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus. (in 1909)
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.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
On more than one occasion you have offended me, but in my qualities both as Christian and philosopher I have always forgiven you and only pitied you for your errors
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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.
The last 29 days of the month are the hardest.
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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.
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.
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.
The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end.
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.
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.
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
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