Category: inventor
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise Pascal
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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
Nikola Tesla
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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Nikola Tesla
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The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
Nikola Tesla
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
Nikola Tesla