The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, then a flickering flame, then a mighty conflagration, fiercely glowing and devouring.
AC electrical system, inventor
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
1919
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"Insufficient observation is only a form of unknowing, a cause of many perverse incidents and a triumph of crazy ideas."
Philosophical"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."
Strange & Unusual"The human race is governed by its imagination."
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Controversial"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
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