When I understood the task, it was not with a resolve such as men often make. With me it was a sacred vow, a question of life and death. I knew that … - Nikola Tesla

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat, and light beat upon its feeble body, its sensitive nerve-fibres quiver, the muscles contract and relax in obedience: a gasp, a breath, and in this act a marvelous little engine, of inconceivable delicacy and complexity of construction, unlike any on earth, is hitched to the wheel-work of the Universe.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences