Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest inventors of all time, from laying the foundation for wireless technology to developing the alternate current electrical system, he has definitely contributed a lot in the field of science and we are thankful for that as well. Nikola Tesla was not only a great scientist and inventor but he was also one of the most inspiring personalities as well. So let’s just look at the quotes by Nikola Tesla and know a little bit more about his personality.
Nikola Tesla Quotes
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
“I don’t care that they stole my idea …I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
“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.”
“Of all things, I liked books best.”
“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.”
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
“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.”
“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.”
“Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6, and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”
“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
“The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.”
“It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”
“But instinct is something that transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
“So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet…”
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these, there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”
“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.”
“As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.”
Nikola Tesla Quotes On Energy
“Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”
“The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will re fertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.”
“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.”
“As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.”
“The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed, we get a better understanding of Nature, and our conceptions and views are modified.”
“The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.”
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe, there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
“In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.”
“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”
“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next to a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”
“My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”
“It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
“It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.”
“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. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.”
“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.”
“On more than one occasion you have offended me, but in my qualities both as Christian and philosopher, I have always forgiven you and only pitied you for your errors.”
“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.”
“I have had but little time to devote to the fulfillment of a duty which, next to that of turning his best efforts to diligent inquiry in the fields he has chosen, is the most important to a scientific man; namely, that of giving an exact record of the results obtained.”
“I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable… A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.”
“I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.”
“One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature, and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.”
“The greatest value of my invention will result from its effect upon warfare and armaments, for by reason of its certain and unlimited destructiveness it will tend to bring about and maintain permanent peace among nations.”
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”