The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by… — 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 has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — 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
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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
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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