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

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search… I was a sorry...

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934

You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have. Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

Necessity, who is the mother of invention. Plato, The Republic

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. John Milton, Paradise Lost

We live as we dream – alone. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny? Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia