Nikola Tesla Quotes

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.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Of all things, I liked books best.

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.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

Instinct is something that transcends knowledge.

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.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.

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.

Nikola Tesla Quotes part 2

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter.

Of all things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Mind is the matrix of all matter.

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

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

The influences that shape our destiny are totally unconscious.

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.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.

Marriage brings happiness only to those who are not single.

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.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

No, I don’t regret anything, I would do it all over again.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it.

Its not the love you make. It the love you give.

I have not been organically attached to a woman for three years.

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

If the voice were sharper, the fire would have another use.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Great moments are born from great opportunity.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races.

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.

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.

An animal has few distinct muscles, while a man has several hundred.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result.