Nikola Tesla Quotes

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. Nikola Tesla was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for developing the modern alternating current (AC) electrical supply system. Nikola Tesla many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were based on the theories of electromagnetic technology discovered by Michael Faraday. Nikola Tesla's patents and theoretical work also formed the basis of wireless communication and the radio.

1. Miss! Never trust a Jew!
    
2. Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
    
3. The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
    
4. The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
    
5. It is quite evident, though, that this squandering cannot go on indefinitely, for geological investigations prove our fuel
   stores to be limited. So great has been the drain on them of late years that the specter of exhaustion is looming up
   threateningly in the distance.
    
6. 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.
    
7. Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which
   I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
    
8. 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.
    
9. 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 really worked, is mine.
    
10. 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.
     
11. If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after
    straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and
    calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
     
12. 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. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril
    of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this
    inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general
    knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
     
13. What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the
    elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can
    only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
     
14. 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.
     
15. Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
     
16. I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
     
17. If I were ever assailed by doubt of ultimate success I would dismiss it by remembering the words of that great philosopher,
    Lord Kelvin, who after witnessing some of my experiments said to me with tears in his eyes: 'I am sure you will do it.'
     
18. No desire for material advantages has animated me in all this work, though I hope, for the sake of the continuance of my
    labors, that these will soon follow, naturally, as a compensation for valuable services rendered to science and industry.
     
19. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws
    will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
     
20. The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If
    timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be
    injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
     
21. A state of human life vaguely defined by the term "Universal Peace," while a result of cumulative effort through centuries past, might come into existence quickly, not unlike a crystal suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. But just as no effect can precede its cause, so this state can never be brought on by any pact between nations, however solemn. Experience is made before the law is formulated, both are related like cause and effect. So long as we are clearly conscious of the expectation, that peace is to result from such a parliamentary decision, so long have we a conclusive evidence that we are not fit for peace. Only then when we shall feel that such international meetings are mere formal procedures, unnecessary except in so far as they might serve to give definite expression to a common desire, will peace be assured.