• Categories
  • Nikola Tesla Quotes   187
  • An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Life Quotes , Average Quotes
  • If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Rivers Quotes , Lakes Quotes
  • Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Kings Quotes , Ignorance Quotes
  • Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Men Quotes , Discovery Quotes
  • Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Distance Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Taken Quotes , Hard Work Quotes
  • Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Odds Quotes , Secret Quotes
  • They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is a mistake in my opinion. Ether's opponents refer to the experiments of Maykelson - Morli [Michelson-Morley] who made attempts to detect the Earth's movement relative to the fixed-bed ether. These experiments failed, however it didn't mean the ether's non-existence. I always based as fact the existence of mechanical ether in my works and therefore I could achieve positive success.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Race Quotes , Years Quotes
  • Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes