Nikola Tesla — "In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occ…"

"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."

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

"The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs."

"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 t…"

"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."