Nikola Tesla — "Quick, Tesla! Where is it?"

"I have toiled ceaselessly for a quarter of a century for the love of science, to benefit humanity."

"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."

"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."

"I am unwilling to submit to any procedure for the determination of my mental condition."

"Even matter which is called inorganic, deemed dead, responds to the disbelievers and gives irrefutable proof of the living principle within itself. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, living…"