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
proud croatians fatherland
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.
wise prescriptions
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
fighting government individual
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
patents marconi fellows
Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.
father book reading
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
married inventor married-life
Inventors don't have time for married life.
self discipline wish
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
fate drawing long
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
ust littles bees
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.
distance moving sea
We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.
wheels external-influences engines
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.
accounts century front headline mere newspapers pages
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
call conception directly effects either existence feelings form forth knowledge medium organs received response secondary
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
alive began breed continue desirable governing interfere less nature pity roughly ruthless survival year
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.