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... I do not believe that capital punishment is proper. I do not see how one person can condemn another to death.

October 16th, 1902

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

October, 1947

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

February 9th, 1901

If this does not appeal to you sufficiently to recognize in me a discoverer of principles, do me, at least, the justice of calling me an "inventor of some beautiful pieces of electrical apparatus.

June 23rd, 1907

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

July, 1934

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

January 30th, 1926

Man was born to work, to suffer and to fight, because whoever does not do so must perish.


Mses., be careful, do not marry too young because then men marry you mostly for your beauty.

1974

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

November, 1928

I know I'm its father but I don't like it. I just don't like it. It's a nuisance. I never listen to it... (concerning radio)

July 18th, 1932