Nikola Tesla — "As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences t…"

"Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts."

"I do not marry, for I consider that for an inventor, marriage is a great obstacle."

"I felt that I could not touch the hair of other people, except with gloves."

"An individual is transitory, races and peoples will come and go, but man remains. This is wherein lies a deep difference between an individual and a whole."

"Like a wave in the physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the speed o…"