“ Man, however, is not an ordinary mass, consisting of spinning atoms and molecules, and containing merely heat-energy. He is a mass possessed of certain higher qualities by reason of the creative principle of life with which he is endowed. ”
Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900). copy citation
| Author | Nikola Tesla |
|---|---|
| Source | The Problem of Increasing Human Energy |
| Topic | heat energy |
| Date | 1900 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with special references to the harnessing of the Sun's energy, in "Century Illustrated Magazine" |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Increasing_Human_Energy |
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“In like manner we may conceive of human energy being measured by half the human mass multiplied with the square of the velocity which we are not yet able to compute. But our deficiency in this knowledge will not vitiate the truth of the deductions I shall draw, which rest on the firm basis that the same laws of mass and force govern throughout nature.
Man, however, is not an ordinary mass, consisting of spinning atoms and molecules, and containing merely heat-energy. He is a mass possessed of certain higher qualities by reason of the creative principle of life with which he is endowed. His mass, as the water in an ocean wave, is being continuously exchanged, new taking the place of the old. Not only this, but he grows propagates, and dies, thus altering his mass independently, both in bulk and density.”
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