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I have never failed in any of my experiments and therefore I have good reason to believe that this one will not prove worthless...

April 4th, 1901

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

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

February, 1919

I do not hesitate to state here for future reference and as a test of the accuracy of my scientific forecast that flying machines and ships propelled by electricity transmitted without wire will have ceased to be a wonder in ten years from now. I would say five were it not that there is such a thing as "inertia of human opinion" resisting revolutionary ideas.

May 19th, 1907

...With these developments we have every reason to anticipate that in a time not very distant most telegraphic messages across the oceans will be transmitted without cables. For short distances we need a 'wireless' telephone, which requires no expert operators...

June, 1900

Behold the dark threat
veiled in words of flame
One child in misery
is a nation's shame!


Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

June, 1900

There can be no energy in gross matter except that which had been, or is being, received from without.

August 18th, 1935

What Nature does not choose to reveal to us, it is no use trying to force from her by bolts and screws.

April 6th, 1897

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