The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
