Nikola Tesla Quotes - Page 2

It’s not the love you make. It's the love you give.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

But instinct is something which 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.

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

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.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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. 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.