How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my… — 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… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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
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