Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Teslawas a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating currentelectricity supply system...
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth10 July 1856
CitySmiljan, Croatia
Nikola Tesla quotes about
substance matter primaries
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
heat-of-the-sun land rivers
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...
christian buddhist way
The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.
design vision operations
The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.
enlightenment natural universal
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
ideas results autobiography
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
medicine rose rays
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
accurate shows foresight
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
intelligent long wire
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.
keys magnificence if-only-you-knew
If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
flames fire may
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
grateful path theory
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
self practice snow
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
effort brain fiber
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.