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“His experiments and devices always came out how he imagined. Tesla said, “Twenty times I have imagined success and twenty times I have won that success.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“The conditions that surrounded this youth in the airy fastnesses of the Dinaric Alps all made against the hopes he nursed of becoming an electrician ; and not the least impediment was the fond wish of his parents at Siniljan Lika that he should maintain the priestly tradition, and benefit by the preferment likely to come through his uncle, now Metropolitan in Bosnia.”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

“It’s interesting to note that in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, from his laboratory in England, used the Tesla’s coil system to transmit Morse code across the Atlantic. Everything Marconi did was based on Tesla’s work.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm. The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs.”
― Jules Verne, The Essential Jules Verne Collection (25 books) [Illustrated]