Nikola Tesla Quotes

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From a...

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

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

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complet...

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important produ...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one ...

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that alth...

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to dist...

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame,...

When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of soun...

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed ...

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is ne...

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different ...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

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

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and rend...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one ...

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

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and ...

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

Of all things, I liked books best.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

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

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we ...

I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smel...

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water,...

Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her...

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior ...

Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished, in her place has come ...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable app...

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstand...

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet...

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade tha...

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry,...

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The ...

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last ...

When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian tran...

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.