Nikola Tesla

Great moments are born great opportunity.

— Nikola Tesla

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

— Nikola Tesla

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

— Nikola Tesla

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

— Nikola Tesla

Great moments are born great oppurtunity

— Nikola Tesla

Inventors don't have time for married life.

— Nikola Tesla

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

— Nikola Tesla

Of all things, I liked books best.

— Nikola Tesla

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

— Nikola Tesla

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

— Nikola Tesla

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

— Nikola Tesla

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

— Nikola Tesla

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of…

— Nikola Tesla

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

— Nikola Tesla

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

— Nikola Tesla

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly…

— Nikola Tesla

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the…

— 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

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the…

— Nikola Tesla

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get…

— Nikola Tesla

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for…

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation…

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

“War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the…

— Nikola Tesla

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all…

— Nikola Tesla

“In 1924, Nikola Tesla was asked why he never married? His answer was this: "I had always thought of woman as possessing…

— Nikola Tesla

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The…

— Nikola Tesla

Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,…

— Nikola Tesla