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Nature Quotes by Nikola Tesla
- Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
- I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more…
- Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
- Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach…
- The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
- Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence…
- It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
- Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find…
- The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the…
- In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began…
- Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my…
- Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to…
- Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing…
- Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly…
- Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more…
- As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric…
- The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle