Nikola Tesla Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

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

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.

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

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

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.

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.

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

I have always been ahead of my time.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

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

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

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.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

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.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

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

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Of all things I liked books best.

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

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.

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

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.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

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.

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

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

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

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

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

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

Inventors don't have time for married life.

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.