Nikola Tesla

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when…

— Nikola Tesla

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

— Nikola Tesla

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

— Nikola Tesla

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy…

— Nikola Tesla

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

— Nikola Tesla

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

— Nikola Tesla

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

— Nikola Tesla

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

— Nikola Tesla

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us…

— Nikola Tesla

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze,…

— Nikola Tesla

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are…

— Nikola Tesla

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his…

— Nikola Tesla

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States…

— Nikola Tesla

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced…

— Nikola Tesla

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we…

— Nikola Tesla

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the…

— Nikola Tesla

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that…

— Nikola Tesla

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was…

— Nikola Tesla

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be…

— Nikola Tesla

I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey…

— Nikola Tesla

“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering but, to my present view, it was…

— Nikola Tesla

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I…

— Nikola Tesla

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is…

— Nikola Tesla

I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my…

— Nikola Tesla

“All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.”

— Nikola Tesla

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its…

— Nikola Tesla

Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

— Nikola Tesla

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

— Nikola Tesla

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

— Nikola Tesla

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

— Nikola Tesla

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

— Nikola Tesla

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

— Nikola Tesla

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

— Nikola Tesla

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

— Nikola Tesla

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

— Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

— Nikola Tesla

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

— Nikola Tesla

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the…

— Nikola Tesla

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

— Nikola Tesla

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

— Nikola Tesla