NIKOLA TESLA

QUOTES

Mileva Milanović
 1.
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
— Nikola Tesla

2.
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention;
be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
— Nikola Tesla

3.
“I don’t care that they stole my idea...
I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
— Nikola Tesla

 4.
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked,
is mine.”
— Nikola Tesla

5.
“My brain is only a receiver,
in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge,
strength and inspiration.
I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core,
but I know that it exists.”
— Nikola Tesla

6.
“If your hate could be turned into electricity,
it would light up the whole world.”
— Nikola Tesla

 7.
“Of all things, I liked books best.”
— Nikola Tesla

8.
“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence
in a world full of conformists.”
— Nikola Tesla

9.
“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 existence.”
— Nikola Tesla

 10.
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the
human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some
creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man
forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
— Nikola Tesla

11.

“A new idea must not be judged by

its immediate results.”
— Nikola Tesla

12.
“I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline,
and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.”
— Nikola Tesla

 13.
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply
and be quite insane.”
— Nikola Tesla

14.
“What one man calls God,
another calls the laws of physics.”
— Nikola Tesla

15.
“Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.
Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding,
the sphere of external influence extends
to infinite distance.”
— Nikola Tesla

 16.
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed,
condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge
all the more powerfully,
all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
— Nikola Tesla

17.

“We all make mistakes,

and it is better to make them before we begin.”
— Nikola Tesla

18.

“Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself,
work on the same frequencies.”
— Nikola Tesla

 19.
“Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities
and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal,
oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.”
— Nikola Tesla

20.
“I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through
their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that
dangerous path I followed.”
— Nikola Tesla

21.
“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9,
then you would have the key to the universe.”
— Nikola Tesla
 22.
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe.”
— Nikola Tesla

23.
“Inventors don’t have time for married life.”
— Nikola Tesla

24.
“No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.”
— Nikola Tesla
 25.
“Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance,
and hence the energy of a single thought may determine
the motion of a universe.”
— Nikola Tesla

26.
“It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”
— Nikola Tesla

27.
“The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant
the truth was revealed.”
— Nikola Tesla

 28.
“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according
to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future,
for which I have really worked, is mine.”
— Nikola Tesla

29.
“I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air.
These are the main sources of energy.
What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of
matter that is not awakened.”
— Nikola Tesla

30.
“I have always been ahead of my time.”
— Nikola Tesla

 31.
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable,
like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
— Nikola Tesla

32.
“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 reality.”
— Nikola Tesla

33.
“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is,
an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”
— Nikola Tesla
 34.
“When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into
a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”
— Nikola Tesla

35.
“Great moments are born great opportunity.”
— Nikola Tesla

36.
“The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another,
but both say the same: We are all one.”
— Nikola Tesla

 37.
“You may live to see man-made horrors
beyond your comprehension.”
— Nikola Tesla

38.
“Each day we go to our work in the
hope of discovering.”
— Nikola Tesla

39.
“Perhaps I failed, but I did my best,
These masters of mine may do the rest.”
— Nikola Tesla

 40.
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence
of universal enlightenment.”
— Nikola Tesla

41.
“The opinion of the world does not affect me.
I have placed as the real values in my life
what follows when I am dead.”
— Nikola Tesla

42.
“The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness
the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”
— Nikola Tesla

 43.
“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom
he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty,
and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word,
a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
— Nikola Tesla

44.
“There is no energy in matter other than that received
from the environment.”
— Nikola Tesla

45.
“My belief is firm in a law of compensation.
The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor
and sacrifices made.”
— Nikola Tesla

 46.
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have
been made by married men.”
— Nikola Tesla

47.
“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of
a formative life principle, and though we cannot
understand the life of a crystal, it is
nonetheless a living being.”
— Nikola Tesla

48.
“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.”
— Nikola Tesla

 49.
“Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars
in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen,
but we can feel them.”
— Nikola Tesla

50.
“But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to
perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful
effort of the brain, is futile.”
— Nikola Tesla

51.
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most
retards human movement is ignorance.”
— Nikola Tesla

 52.
“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 of human
nature to human needs.”
— Nikola Tesla

53.
“Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our
minds or determines our actions which is not directly or
indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our
sense organs from without.”
— Nikola Tesla

54.
“Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large
library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy
my passion for reading.”
— Nikola Tesla

 55.
“In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which
slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.”
— Nikola Tesla

56.
“There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study,
than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover
the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them,
is the highest aim of the intellect of man.”
— Nikola Tesla

57.
“The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine
and the sun rays as a food.”
— Nikola Tesla

 58.
“I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my
childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is
electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by
since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.”
— Nikola Tesla

59.
“All matter comes from a primary substance,
the luminiferous ether.”
— Nikola Tesla

60.
“Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.”
— Nikola Tesla

 61.
“The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them.
I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely
reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my
vision and the operation was always as I expected.”
— Nikola Tesla

62.
“To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere
of our sense perceptions.”
— Nikola Tesla

63.
“Money does not represent such a value as men have
placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments
with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind
to have a little easier life.”
— Nikola Tesla

 64.
“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them.
The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.”
— Nikola Tesla

65.
“Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about,
will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news,
to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument,
conveyed from any other region of the globe.”
— Nikola Tesla

66.
“Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds
to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living
principle within. Everything that exists, organic or
inorganic animated or inert, is susceptible
to stimulus from the outside.”
— Nikola Tesla

 67.
“Nature may reach the same result in many ways.”
— Nikola Tesla

68.
“My mother understood human nature better and never chided.
She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own
foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests,
but only by the use of his own will.”
— Nikola Tesla

69.
“The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!”
— Nikola Tesla
 70.
“To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to
aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the
supreme manifestation of the power of Man’s mind,
his most complete triumph over the physical world...”
— Nikola Tesla

71.
“The progressive development of man is vitally
dependent on invention.”
— Nikola Tesla

72.
“My Mother had taught me to seek all
truth in the Bible.”
— Nikola Tesla

 73.
“My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves,
which are a grievous myth, but sound
waves in the aether ...”
— Nikola Tesla

74.
“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical
engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted,
doubting world.”
— Nikola Tesla

75.
“Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy.
I never paid such a price.”
— Nikola Tesla

 76.
“When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire,
one advances towards his goal
in seven-league boots.”
— Nikola Tesla

77.
“It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to
wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system,
fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which
I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.”
— Nikola Tesla

78.
“Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?”
— Nikola Tesla

 79.
“It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching
their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.”
— Nikola Tesla

80.
“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great
problem of increasing human energy are answered by
the three words: food, peace, work.”
— Nikola Tesla

81.
“The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain.”
— Nikola Tesla

 82.
“So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem
as though the Creator, himself had electrically
designed this planet...”
— Nikola Tesla

83.
“It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results,
by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now
numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing,
like that of the colonels in the South after the war.”
— Nikola Tesla

84.
“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered.
Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is
an appalling loss of time, effort and life.
A cheerless view, but true.”
— Nikola Tesla

 85.
“The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate
now as it has proved heretofore.”
— Nikola Tesla

86.
“If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.”
— Nikola Tesla

87.
“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first,
a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze,
ever increasing in speed and power.”
— Nikola Tesla

 88.
“The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so
powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached
against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who
believe it to be realizable.”
— Nikola Tesla

89.
“To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day.
Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive,
as we progress in the satanic
science of destruction.”
— Nikola Tesla

90.
“Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power
obtainable at any point of the universe.”
— Nikola Tesla

 91.
“My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which
could not have been produced on earth...”
— Nikola Tesla

92.
“Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.”
— Nikola Tesla

93.
“All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the
conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when
they were promulgated.”
— Nikola Tesla

 94.
“I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my
Croatian fatherland.”
— Nikola Tesla

95.
“Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of
discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal
man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt
that I should concentrate on some big idea.”
— Nikola Tesla

96.
“We should begin at the very root from which we spring,
we should effect a radical reform in the character
of the food.”
— Nikola Tesla

 97.
“I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp,
having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric
current through it, will entirely disappear.”
— Nikola Tesla

98.
“With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some
years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic
ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine
could be similarly detected.”
— Nikola Tesla

99.
“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated
drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately,
it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that
of chief electrician to the telephone company.”
— Nikola Tesla
 100.
“A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person
to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to
marry a habitual criminal.”
— Nikola Tesla

101.
“All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.”
— Nikola Tesla

102.
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution,
but it contains certain known factors.”
— Nikola Tesla

 103.
“The individual is ephemeral, races and
nations come and pass away,
but man remains.”
— Nikola Tesla

104.
“Every living being is an engine geared to the
wheel-work of the universe.”
— Nikola Tesla

105.
“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute
portion of the outside world.”
— Nikola Tesla

 106.
“It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the
world so simply that any individual can carry and
operate his own apparatus.”
— Nikola Tesla

107.
“Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists,
but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances.
The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations
which are palpable, which live and work.”
— Nikola Tesla

108.
“Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too
great a sacrifice to my work.”
— Nikola Tesla

 109.
“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations,
invariably result from misunderstandings in the
broadest interpretation of this term.”
— Nikola Tesla

110.
“But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my
experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision,
but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.”
— Nikola Tesla

111.
“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them
to operate a motive device.”
— Nikola Tesla

 112.
“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are,
and among these there must exist life under all conditions
and phases of development.”
— Nikola Tesla

113.
“To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone,
might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must
be employed to hasten the end.”
— Nikola Tesla