Nikola Tesla Quotes
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
Tesla, Nikola. "A Machine to Read Your Thoughts." Interview by George Sylvester Viereck. Liberty, 9 Feb. 1935, p. 44.
Like many Americans who thought it bad policy to go to war in Iraq in the early 21st century and then became ardent military supporters to win the war rather than lose, Scott maintained that victory in WWI was crucial even though he had opposed entry into the war.
He was writing about the impending First World War.
Giving his analysis of the start of World War I:
The phrase was picked up by the press, and then became the title to a patriotic song of World War II.
Unlike many socialists who were pacifists and against WWI, Foster and the communists were supporters of the war against fascist Germany, This was one of the reasons that Nazi Germany was virulently anti-communist later.
While Queen Mary was presenting medals to British soldiers during World War I, she said this to a soldier who had exclaimed “No more bloody wars for me”.
Churchill saw before many others that technology and weaponry had changed the nature of warfare. At the time the military leadership of all the major powers were pursuing 19th century tactics with 20th century weaponry including mass bayonet charges against machine guns behind barbed wire. Churchill and other civilians, although they had legal control over the military, had little de facto tactical control. As a politician he became an itinerant meddler in military tactics thereafter.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
