Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, & Sayings

Nikola Tesla

Popular Topics:

People | Life | Time | Man | Love | Work | Music | Mind | Women | Money | War | Truth | Power | Art | Government | Nature | Business | History | Family | Age | Society | Success

Popular Authors:

Anthony Robbins | Tennessee Williams | Steve Jobs | Ramakrishna | Henry Fielding | Albert Schweitzer | Carl Sandburg | Stephen Hawking | Karl Kraus | Walt Disney | Arthur C. Clarke

Popular Occupations:

Actors | Politicians | Philosophers | Musicians | Comedians | Scientists | Artists | Lawyers

Nikola Tesla

Born: July 10, 1856

Died: January 7, 1943

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Biography: Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the modern alternating current electrical supply system. Tesla's patents and theoretical work helped form the basis of wireless communication and radio.

Next

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

Source/Notes: Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X, p.5

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

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

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“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

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“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

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“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

Source/Notes: Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.”

- Nikola Tesla

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

Source/Notes: Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

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 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.”

- Nikola Tesla

Source/Notes: Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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

Source/Notes: Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

Source/Notes: Western Union Telegram to Croatian Leader Dr. Vlatko Macek (25 May 1936)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“Miss! Never trust a Jew!”

- Nikola Tesla

Source/Notes: To a secretary, as quoted in Tesla: Man Out of Time (1998) by Margaret Cheney, ISBN 0743215362, p.165 (footnote)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Nikola Tesla

“It should be borne in mind that electrical energy obtained by harnessing a waterfall is probably fifty times more effective than fuel energy. Since this is the most perfect way of rendering the sun's energy available, the direction of the future material development of man is clearly indicated.”

- Nikola Tesla

Source/Notes: A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Next