Quotes by Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

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

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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and ...

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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

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Of all things, I liked books best.

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The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the ...

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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. ...

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Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battl...

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I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no...

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

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

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

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

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

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I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. O bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand ...

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Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraord...

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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. Th...

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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.

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If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameNikola Tesla
  • DescriptionCroatian American inventor
  • BornJuly 10, 1856
  • DiedJanuary 7, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionInventor; Physicist; Electrical Engineer; Engineer
  • AwardsGrand Cross Of The Order Of The White Eagle; Edison Medal; Elliott Cresson Medal