QuoteQuest“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999), p. 73 ; also in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man
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Tesla, Nikola. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Nikola Tesla. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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