Nikola Tesla

Quotes

• “But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generati...”
• “I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that ...”
• “Universal Peace, assuming it to be in the fullest sense realizable, might not require eons for its accomplishment, howev...”
• “When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat, and light b...”
• “To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of of...”
• “The ideal solution of the problem of transportation will be arrived at only when the complete annihilation of distance i...”
• “While I am not a believer in the orthodox sense, I commend religion, first, because every individual should have some id...”
• “On Light And Other High Frequency Phenomena" A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (24 Februar...”
• “Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The...”
• “Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greate...”
• “To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the sup...”
• “There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be f...”
• “Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the un...”
• “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw af...”
• “The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. O...”
• “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. My brain is only a r...”
• “It should be borne in mind that electrical energy obtained by harnessing a waterfall is probably fifty times more effect...”
• “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken...”
• “Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. ...”
• “Perhaps the male in human society is useless. I am frank to admit that I don't know. If women are beginning to feel this...”
• “The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of toda...”
• “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 cr...”
• “[Dr. Tesla's] lectures opened a new physical world to me... [He was] one of the kindest men I've ever encountered. The h...”
• “Nikola Tesla is the true unsung prophet of the electronic age; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alterna...”
• “Comment by the midwife who assisted his birth, "at the stroke of midnight" while lightning was striking during a thunder...”
• “On being informed that Marconi was transmitting wireless messages across the Atlantic Ocean, as quoted in "Who Invented ...”
• “The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached...”
• “The evolution of electric power from the discovery of Faraday to the initial great installation of the Tesla polyphase s...”
• “Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with w...”
• “The gift of mental power comes from God divine being and if we concentrate our my minds on that truth we become in tune ...”
• “The invention of the wheel was perhaps rather obvious; but the invention of an invisible wheel, made of nothing but a ma...”
• “Nikola Tesla's achievements in electrical science are monuments that symbolize America as a land of freedom and opportun...”
• “Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, an...”
• “In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand ...”
• “As quoted in Dragislav L. Petković, "A Visit to Nikola Tesla", Politika (April 1927); also in Margaret Cheney, Robert Ut...”
• “Quoted by Ralph Bergstresser, who claimed to have heard this from Tesla in person. "Coments From The Inventor of the Pur...”
• “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy", Century Illustrat...”
• “Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; th...”
• “All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation ...”
• “We think of his contribution much oftener than that of Ampere and Ohm … the induction motor and our power system are end...”
• “Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" an address to the Institution of Electrical En...”
• “The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, ...”
• “Tesla has done great things that will take the rest of us a long time to fully exploit. Lets just hope we exploit them f...”
• “George W. Bush in a message to Stjepan Mesić, quoted in "Nikola Tesla's anniversary and ancestry" in The New Generation ...”
• “Experiments With Alternating Currents of Very High Frequency, and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illuminatio...”
• “Roentgen Rays or Streams", Electrical Review (12 Aug 1896). Reprinted in The Nikola Tesla Treasury (2007), 307. By Nikol...”
• “Edwin Howard Armstrong, as quoted in the The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of N...”
• “John Stone Stone in "John Stone Stone on Nikola Tesla's Priority in Radio and Continuous-Wave Radiofrequency Apparatus" ...”
• “Lord Kelvin, in a statement of 1896, as quoted in James J. O'Neill, Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla (2007)”
• “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", The Century (Jun 1900), 211. Collected in The Century (1900), Vol. 60, 211”