Nikola Tesla Quotes

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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• The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

  

  Nikola Tesla
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  • Study
  • Existence