“Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.”

—  Nikola Tesla

After Lord Rayleigh's praise of Tesla at the Royal Institution, London, 1892
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