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  1. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

  2. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

  3. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

  4. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing.

  5. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.

  6. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    Instinct is something which transcends knowledge

  7. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    One's salvation could only be brought about through his own efforts.

  8. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    All repeated acts or operations I performed had to be divisible by three and if I missed I felt impelled to do it all over again, even if it took hours.

  9. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, tho not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies.

  10. The real #Nikola #Tesla once said:
    There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.