Category: inventor
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise Pascal
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The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Blaise Pascal
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal
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Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
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All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal
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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
Nikola Tesla