He was a genius who symbolized a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the
name of peace and science. He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development.
Tesla astonished the world by demonstrating the wonders of alternating current electricity at the World Columbian
Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Tesla was a pioneer in many fields. He invented in 1891, the so-called Tesla Coil even widely used today in
radio, television sets and other electronic equipment.
His concept of wireless electricity was used to run industry and transportation, power ocean liners,
destroy warships, and send communications instantaneously all over the globe.
(1856 - 1943)
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
With these developments we have every reason to anticipate that in a time not very distant most
telegraphic messages across the oceans will be transmitted without cables. For short distances
we need a 'wireless' telephone, which requires no expert operators.
~ Nikola Tesla
The last 29 days of the month are the hardest.
~ Nikola Tesla
Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older
reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, though not
immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies.
~ Nikola Tesla
At times it has seemed to me as though I myself heard a whispering voice, and I have searched eagerly among my dusty bulbs and bottles.
I fear my imagination has deceived me, but there they are still, my dusty bulbs, and I am still listening hopefully.
~ Nikola Tesla
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
I was swayed by superstitious belief and lived in constant dread of the spirit of evil, of ghosts, and ogres
and other unholy monsters of the dark. Then, all at once, there came a tremendous change which altered the
course of my whole existence.
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If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
~ Nikola Tesla
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary,
I have thrived on my thoughts.
~ Nikola Tesla
We shall not satisfy ourselves simply with improving steam and explosive engines or inventing
new batteries; we have something much better to work for, a greater task to fulfill. We have
to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect
methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever.
~ Nikola Tesla
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what
Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance can be
reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity.
No effort could be better spent.
~ Nikola Tesla
The day when we shall know exactly what “electricity” is, will chronicle an event probably greater,
more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the
comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.
~ Nikola Tesla
If there are intelligent inhabitants of Mars or any other planet, it seems to me that we can
do something to attract their attention... I have had this scheme under consideration for five or six years.
~ Nikola Tesla
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird,
pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to
wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and
she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.
~ Nikola Tesla
I have hundreds of inventions which I could not take the patents of, on account of my misfortune.
~ Nikola Tesla
"I undertook the production of these phenomena (of lightning) and,
in 1899 I actually succeeded, using a generator of 2,000 horsepower, in obtaining discharges of
18,000,000 volts carrying currents of 1,200 amperes, which were of such power as to be audible
at a distance of 13 miles. I also learned how to produce such lightnings as occur in Nature,
and mastered all the technical difficulties in this connection. But I found that even in the
small and comparatively negligible trigger work called for the employment of thousands of horsepower;
and this is the great obstacle now in the way of this supreme accomplishment.
~ Nikola Tesla
I finally succeeded in reaching electrical movements or rates of delivery of electrical
energy not only approximating, but, as shown in many comparative tests and measurements,
actually surpassing those of lightning discharges.
~ Nikola Tesla
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
My conviction has grown so strong that I no longer look on this plan of energy or intelligence
transmission as a mere theoretical possibility, but as a serious problem in electrical engineering,
which must be carried out some day.
~ Nikola Tesla
Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
~ Nikola Tesla
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.
~ Nikola Tesla
Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.
He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since
the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking,
Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets.
He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus, the seasonal changes on Mars and the reddish haze of Titan.
(1934-1996)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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