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Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, and Sayings
Proverbs, and Sayings
Nikola Tesla Quotes (45 quotes)
 | “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 |
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| “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) |
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| Source/Notes: Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931) |
| “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) |
| “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) |
| Source/Notes: Western Union Telegram to Croatian Leader Dr. Vlatko Macek (25 May 1936) |
| Source/Notes: To a secretary, as quoted in Tesla: Man Out of Time (1998) by Margaret Cheney, ISBN 0743215362, p.165 (footnote) |
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Nikola Tesla
Born: July 10, 1856
Died: January 7, 1943 (aged 86)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Inventor
Bio: 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.
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