- Nikola Tesla: In the universe, there is a core from which we receive all information, inspiration, knowledge, and strength.
- Anne Morgan: I know it's not simple to be able to love calmly. To trust without fear. To commit yourself to really difficult tasks with unlimited energy. Is it better to be vindicated or to be loved? Idealism cannot work hand in hand with capitalism. True or false? Are dreams and intelligence enough to save the world? Is your heightened ability, your brilliance a blessing or a curse?
- Nikola Tesla: You have become much better at asking questions.
- Anne Morgan: Energy creates energy, Sarah Bernhardt said. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
- Swami Vivekanandafv: Chastity is a path to enlightenment. A great inventor should never marry. You realize this? We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care about what you think. Thoughts live, they travel far.
- Anne Morgan: She sleeps in a coffin.
- Nikola Tesla: To prepare for the reality of death. I'd like a coffin. Her motto is quand meme,which translated means all the same or despite everything, even so.
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- Anne Morgan: [narrating] He had a black cat named Macak when he was boy. The cat followed him everywhere. And one day, when he stroked the cat's back, he saw a miracle; a sheet of light cracking under his hand. Lightening in the sky, his father explained, is the same thing shooting from Macak's back.
- Anne Morgan: And Telsa asked himself, is nature a gigantic cat? And if so, who strokes its back?
- Nikola Tesla: I believe that I may be the first person who has ever heard the sound of one planet greeting another.
- Katherine Johnson: When I thought to sleep out all my faults, I found that some had stuffed the bed with thoughts.I would say thorns.
- Nikola Tesla: It's a paradox, yet true, that the more we learn, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense. It's through enlightenment that we are made aware of our limitations.
- Sarah Bernhardt: There was a time when I hated death.I regret that now.Death is necessary and I love it.Because it waits for you before it strikes.
- Anne Morgan: Thinking, my father taught me, is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than lucking.
- Anital Szigeti: A woman like that,she can make all your dreams come true.
- Nikola Tesla: Well my dreams are true.
- Nichols: [shouting] You did that! The whole goddamned generator's on fire! You threw a short on the line!
- Nikola Tesla: [visibly irritated] I set the earth in electrical resonance.
- Nichols: You blacked out the whole goddamn town, you son of a bitch! You knocked out the generator!
- Nikola Tesla: I sent electrons streaming into the earth at a rate of a hundred and fifty thousand oscillations per second, each pulsation a wavelength of six thousand six hundred feet, and it expands overflowing the curve of the earth, creating a stationary wave that rises and falls on the other side of the planet. I will pay for a new generator.
- Nichols: [stunned] Great.
- Nikola Tesla: My expense.
- Anne Morgan: [narrating] The man who says he doesn't care about money can find myself tormented by the lack of it. Whereas Edison, Edison values money, and spends it faster then he makes it. But he's always making it. In great quantities.