Nikola Tesla

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy…

— Nikola Tesla

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

— Nikola Tesla

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

— Nikola Tesla

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

— Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

— Nikola Tesla

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

— Nikola Tesla

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to…

— Nikola Tesla

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

— Nikola Tesla

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the…

— Nikola Tesla

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through…

— Nikola Tesla

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

— Nikola Tesla

In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense…

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“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead…

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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us…

— Nikola Tesla

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable…

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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and…

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There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard…

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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of…

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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on…

— Nikola Tesla

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead…

— Nikola Tesla

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for…

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“What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination…

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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it…

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The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that…

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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

— Nikola Tesla

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

— Nikola Tesla

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

— Nikola Tesla

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding…

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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I…

— Nikola Tesla

“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would…

— Nikola Tesla

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass…

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The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in…

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Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases…

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It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by…

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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot…

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We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine…

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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow…

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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have…

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So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:…

— Nikola Tesla

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which…

— Nikola Tesla