--- title: "5 Fuel Quotes By Nikola Tesla" description: "5 Fuel quotes by Nikola Tesla. Plus more from Nikola Tesla and more Fuel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbc/nikola-tesla-1383_amount_if-we-use-our-fuel-to-get-our-power-we-a_342605.jpg" --- > [If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/if-we-use-our-fuel-to-get-our-power-we-are-living-on-our-capital-and/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbc/nikola-tesla-1383_amount_if-we-use-our-fuel-to-get-our-power-we-a_342605.jpg) > [The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/the-economic-transmission-of-power-without-wires-is-of-all-surpassing/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c4/nikola-tesla-1383_air_the-economic-transmission-of-power-witho_399221.jpg) > [Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/electric-power-is-everywhere-present-in-unlimited-quantities-and-can/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/nikola-tesla-1383_climate-change_electric-power-is-everywhere-present-in_829199.jpg) > [No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/no-rocket-will-reach-the-moon-save-by-a-miraculous-discovery-of-an/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/nikola-tesla-1383_computers_no-rocket-will-reach-the-moon-save-by-a_3047374.jpg) > [The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/the-universal-utilization-of-water-power-and-its-long-distance/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/nikola-tesla-1383_along_the-universal-utilization-of-water-power_3221812.jpg) ## Other authors on Fuel ## More by Nikola Tesla > [From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/from-childhood-i-was-compelled-to-concentrate-attention-upon-myself/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/in-a-time-not-distant-it-will-be-possible-to-flash-any-image-formed/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/women-will-ignore-precedent-and-startle-civilization-with-their/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Great moments are born great opportunity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/great-moments-are-born-great-opportunity/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [ If he \[Thomas Edison\] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/if-he-thomas-edison-had-a-needle-to-find-in-a-haystack-he-would-not/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/man-like-the-universe-is-a-machine-nothing-enters-our-minds-or/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/the-day-science-begins-to-study-non-physical-phenomena-it-will-make/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/all-knowledge-or-form-conception-is-evoked-through-the-medium-of-the/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/every-living-being-is-an-engine-geared-to-the-wheelwork-of-the-2/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/perhaps-i-failed-but-i-did-my-best-these-masters-of-mine-may-do-the/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/religion-is-simply-an-ideal-it-is-an-ideal-force-that-tends-to-free/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/what-we-now-want-is-closer-contact-and-better-understanding-between/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/when-a-coil-is-operated-with-currents-of-very-high-frequency/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/of-all-the-frictional-resistances-the-one-that-most-retards-human/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) > [I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/i-am-even-grateful-to-einstein-and-others-because-through-their/) [Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fuel/nikola-tesla/#itemlist", "name": "5 Fuel Quotes By Nikola Tesla", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. 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