{"author":"Nikola Tesla","author_id":"Nikola+Tesla","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. 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. 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.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["breed","breeding","civilization","eugenics","government","instinct","marriage","mating","nature","past","pity","prediction","progeny","race"],"id":2725,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled 'Abafi' — The Son of Aba — a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown. The lessons it teaches are much like those of 'Ben Hur,' and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace. The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself. Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied. Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done. So I practiced day by day from morning till night. At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["dedication","discipline","motivation","will-power","work-ethic"],"id":36832,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] 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.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["achievements","change","edison","exalted","genius","history","humanity","pride","thomas-edison","unique"],"id":76758,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["light","music","nikola-tesla","tesla"],"id":89285,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["woman"],"id":95596,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["stress","purpose","earth "],"id":97510,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["reading","perfection","thought "],"id":97557,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["civilized","crime","discovery","education","future","hatred","ignorance","income","killing","peace","philosophy","progress","savagery","science","truth","war"],"id":131300,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["inspirational","psychological"],"id":142178,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no doubt that, if he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it the one object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect. So great and uncontrollable was his passion for work.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["amusement","doubt","edison","existence","experiment","intelligence","laboratory","paris","passion","thomas-edison","work"],"id":148033,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}