Famous Quotes
By Tesla
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence"
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World in Modern Mechanics and Inventions" (July 1934)
"Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance." (Did the War Cause the Italian Earthquake) New York American, February 7, 1915
“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development."
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" (February 1892)
"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world." The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace in Electrical World and Engineer (January 7, 1905)
"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called ‘the greatest evil in the world’." The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, in Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)
“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment..."
"In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization." A Machine to End War, Liberty, February, 1937
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
"Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life." A Visit to Nikola Tesla, by Dragislav L. Petkoviæ in Politika (April 1927)
“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs."
“So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet..."
"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects." The Wonder World To Be Created By Electricity, Manufacturer’s Record, September 9, 1915
"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born." American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 by Thomas P. Hughes (2004)
"Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile." My Inventions, in Electrical Experimenter magazine (1919)
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."
"What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics."