Nikola Tesla Quotes
Top 80 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Genius is its own passport, and has always been ready to change habitats until the natural one is found.
Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
Science is but a perversion of itself
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet ...
The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth ...
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.
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether ...
Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering - only expensive - blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
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.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.