Nikola Tesla Quotes about Ignorance

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

Nikola Tesla

Ignorance, Movement, Resistance

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.30, Adventures Unlimited Press

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.

Nikola Tesla

Kings, Ignorance, Men

The New York Times, (p. 23, c.8), July 11, 1935.

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

Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... 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.

Nikola Tesla

Ignorance, Views, Appreciate

"The Transmission Of Electrical Energy Without Wires As A Means For Furthering Peace". "Electrical World and Engineer", (pp. 21-24), January 7, 1905.