Nikola Tesla Quotes: Nikola Tesla is an inventor who has made experiments and inventions that radically changed the history of world science. His most important invention is to experimentally prove that electricity can be carried wirelessly by illuminating the London fair.
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Nikola Tesla Quotes
‘”The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.”‘
‘”The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”‘
‘”Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”‘
‘”Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.”‘
‘”Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”‘
‘”If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”‘
‘”All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.”‘
‘”The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”‘
‘”We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”‘
‘”Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”‘
‘”My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe”‘
‘”The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”‘
‘”There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment”‘
‘”Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.”‘
‘”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 really worked, is mine.”‘
‘”If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”‘
‘”My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.”‘
‘”Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.”‘
‘”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”‘
‘”Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.”‘
‘”The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!”‘
‘”Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.”‘
‘”The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.”‘
‘”We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”‘
‘”The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?”‘
‘”A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”‘
‘”Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.”‘
‘”I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.”‘
‘”When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.”‘
‘”Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”‘
‘”My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.”‘
‘”If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”‘
‘”What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable… A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.”‘
‘”Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.”‘
‘”My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”‘
‘”Great moments are born great opportunity.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.”‘
‘”With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.”‘
‘”Nature may reach the same result in many ways.”‘
‘”But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”‘
‘”No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.”‘
‘”When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.”‘
‘”I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”‘
‘”I have always been ahead of my time.”‘
‘”All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether”‘
‘”Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.”‘
‘”Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”‘
‘”Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”‘
‘”A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.”‘
‘”The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”‘
‘”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 of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist”‘
‘”The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.”‘
‘”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 motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.”‘
‘”When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.”‘
‘”Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”‘
‘”We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. …the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.”‘
‘”Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hear
ng extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence
travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.”‘
‘”Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”‘
‘”So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.”‘
‘”My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.”‘
‘”No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.”‘
‘”All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.”‘
‘”It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.”‘
‘”One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.”‘
‘”There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.”‘
‘”Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.”‘
‘”The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.”‘
‘”It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.”‘
‘”Of all things I liked books best.”‘
‘”How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate… [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.”‘
‘”The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.”‘
‘”The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.”‘
‘”We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.”‘
‘”Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly – not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”‘
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