Tesla (I) (2020)

Ethan Hawke: Nikola Tesla

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• Nikola Tesla : You know the proverb, nothing grows in the shadow of an Oak.

• Nikola Tesla : Every human being is an engine geared to the wheel work of the universe.

• Nikola Tesla : The best machine is the one with the fewest parts.

• 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 : 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.

• Nikola Tesla : I believe that I may be the first person who has ever heard the sound of one planet greeting another.

• Katherine Johnson : She says you live in your head.

  Nikola Tesla : Doesn't everyone?

• Nikola Tesla : Machines is an extension of people, not as the opposite of people.

• 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.

• 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.