Wizard Quotes

“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“His name was Nikola Tesla, and his inventions included the induction motor, the electrical-power distribution system, fluorescent and neon lights, wireless communication, remote control, and robotics.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“Because his accomplishments are prodigious, fundamental, and documented, the elimination of his name from many history books is not forgivable.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“In 1976, while involved in research at the New York Public Library, I stumbled upon a strange text entitled Return of the Dove which claimed that there was a man not born of this planet who landed as a baby in the mountains of Croatia in 1856. Raised by “earth parents,” an avatar had arrived for the sole purpose of inaugurating the New Age. By providing humans with a veritable cornucopia of inventions, he had created, in essence, the technological backbone of the modern era.1 His name was Nikola Tesla, and his inventions included the induction motor, the electrical-power distribution system, fluorescent and neon lights, wireless communication, remote control, and robotics.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“The discovery of how to effectively harness the rotating magnetic field was really only a fraction of Tesla’s creation. Before his invention, electricity could be pumped approximately one mile, and then only for illuminating dwellings. After Tesla, electrical power could be transmitted hundreds of miles, and then not only for lighting but for running household appliances and industrial machines in factories. Tesla’s creation was a leap ahead in a rapidly advancing technological revolution.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“It wasn’t long before Tesla realized that his academic training and mathematical skills had given him a great engineering advantage over Edison’s plodding strategy of trial and error. In a bitter moment of reminiscence, at the time of Edison’s death in 1931, Tesla said: “If he had a needle to find in a haystack he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search…”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“For several days after my arrival I roamed thru [sic] the streets in utter bewilderment of the new spectacle. The attractions were many and irresistible, but, alas, the income was spent as soon as received. When Mr. Puskas asked me how I was getting along…I [replied] ‘the last twenty-nine days of the month are the toughest!”
― Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1”
― Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“Tesla, who was working at Ivry-sur-Seine, would be trained with the other workers to travel out and help run these facilities. “I never can forget the deep impression that magic city produced on my mind. For several days after my arrival I roamed thru [sic] the streets in utter bewilderment of the new spectacle. The attractions were many and irresistible, but, alas, the income was spent as soon as received. When Mr. Puskas asked me how I was getting along…I [replied] ‘the last twenty-nine days of the month are the toughest!’”9 In”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“NT 1937 “The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through the Natural Medium.” In Elizabeth Raucher and Toby Grotz, eds. Tesla: 1984: Proceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colo.: International Tesla Society, 1984, pp. 144-50.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

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― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

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― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“On many occasions, he drove himself until he collapsed, working around the clock, with few breaks. “Tesla produced as rapidly as the machines could be constructed three complete systems of AC machinery—for single-phase, two-phase, and three-phase currents—and made experiments with four and six-phase currents.”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“Relegated to occult status for many decades, Tesla has also been fictionalized as one of any number of mad scientists in science-fiction literature, as part of the composite New Age hero John Galt in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged,”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“If you mean the man who really invented, in other words, originated and discovered—not merely improved what had already been invented by others, then without a shade of doubt, Nikola Tesla is the world’s greatest inventor, not only at present, but in all history. HUGO GERNSBACK1”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“The day when we shall know exactly what “electricity” is, will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent. NIKOLA TESLA1”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“According to Tesla’s theory, if the ether could be made to oscillate at 500 trillion times per second, pure light would be created. Below that figure, heat was produced.4”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“The attractions were many and irresistible, but, alas, the income was spent as soon as received. When Mr. Puskas asked me how I was getting along…I [replied] ‘the last twenty-nine days of the month are the toughest!’”9”
― Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

“Tesla attributes his revival to “a powerful desire to live and to continue the work” and to the assistance of the athletic Szigeti, who forced him outdoors and got him to undertake healthful exercises. Mystics attributed the event to the triggering of his pineal gland and corresponding access to higher mystical states of consciousness.39 During a walk in the park with Szigeti at sunset, the solution to the problem suddenly became manifest as he was reciting a “glorious passage” from Goethe’s Faust. See how the setting sun, with ruddy glow, The green-embosomed hamlet fires. He sinks and fades, the day is lived and gone. He hastens forth new scenes of life to waken. O for a wing to lift and bear me on, And on to where his last rays beckon.”
― Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla