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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

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I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

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There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

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I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

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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.

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The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

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A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.

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

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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

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Of all things I liked books best.

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