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These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the
strong.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the
outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing
on within themselves. The
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
One may feel a sudden wave of sadness and rake his brain
for an explanation when he might have noticed that it was
caused by a cloud cutting off the rays of the sun.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared
for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in
the end and make it a triumphal success.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am,
if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost
all of my waking hours.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last
exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he
achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often
performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and
resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter.
When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla
If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would
have a key to the universe
Nikola Tesla
One day I was handed a few volumes of new literature unlike anything I
had ever read before and so captivating as to make me utterly forget my
hopeless state. They were the earlier works of Mark Twain and to them
might have been due the miraculous recovery which followed. Twenty-five
years later, when I met Mr. Clemens and we formed a friendship between
us, I told him of the experience and was amazed to see that great man
of laughter burst into tears.
Nikola Tesla
War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is
removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the
planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every
respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and
supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about
some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Jules Breton has spoken of the history of his life as being at the
same time the genesis of his art. This is true of Nikola Teslas
evolution. His bent toward invention we may
surely trace to his mother, who, as the wife
of an eloquent clergyman in the Greek
Church, made
Nikola Tesla, The Nikola Tesla Treasury
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.
Nikola Tesla
Its not the love you make. It's the love you give.
Nikola Tesla
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. 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 to interfere
with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep
alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our
notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the
unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating
instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the
American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not
sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make
marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent
should be permitted to produce progeny. 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
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 planterfor the future. His duty is to lay the
foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy
Nikola Tesla
I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884,
and was brought in intimate contact with him
[Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and
night, holidays not excepted. His existence
was made up of alternate periods of work and
sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby,
cared for no sport or amusement of any kind
and lived in utter disregard of the most
elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no
doubt that, if he had not married later a
woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it
the one object of her life to preserve him, he
would have died many years ago from
consequences of sheer neglect. So great and
uncontrollable was his passion for work.
Nikola Tesla
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find
in a haystack, he would not stop to reason
where it was most likely to be, but would
proceed at once with the feverish diligence of
a bee, to examine straw after straw until he
found the object of his search. Just a little theory and calculation
would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
Nikola Tesla
I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can
have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties.
He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of
properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the
space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved
is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for
one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.
Nikola Tesla
There were many days when [I] did not know where my next meal was
coming from. But I was never afraid to work, I went where some men were
digging a ditch ... [and] said I wanted to work. The boss looked at my
good clothes and white hands and laughed to the others ... but he said,
All right. Spit on your hands. Get in the ditch. And I worked harder
than anybody. At the end of the day I had $2
Nikola Tesla
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made
by married men.
Nikola Tesla
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be
quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
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
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter.
When they separate, man is no more
Nikola Tesla
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
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
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The
wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the
physical world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all,
so in the world of organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds
onward, at times, may be, with the speed of light, at times, again, so
slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay, passing through
processes of a complexity inconceivable to men, but in all its forms,
in all its stages, its energy ever and ever integrally present. 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. In no way can we get such an overwhelming idea of the
grandeur of Nature than when we consider, that in accordance with the
law of the conservation of energy, 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
If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would
have the key to the universe.
Nikola Tesla
From childhood I was compelled to
concentrate attention upon myself. This caused
me much suffering, but to my present view, it
was a blessing in disguise for it has taught
me to appreciate the inestimable value of
introspection in the preservation of life, as
well as a means of achievement. The pressure
of occupation and the incessant stream of
impressions pouring into our consciousness
through all the gateways of knowledge make
modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most
persons are so absorbed in the contemplation
of the outside world that they are wholly
oblivious to what is passing on within
themselves. The premature death of millions is
primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care,
it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers.
And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a
people as a whole.
Nikola Tesla
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but
man remains.
Nikola Tesla
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
Nikola Tesla
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am,
if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost
all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite
performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may
be the worst of idlers.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions