Category: inventor
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola Tesla
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
Nikola Tesla
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Law, without force, is impotent.
Blaise Pascal
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Nikola Tesla
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal