Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Here are some Nikola Tesla quotes.
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
“I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own”
“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.”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”
“Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.”
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Famous Nikola Tesla quotes
“Instinct is something which transcends knowledge”
“we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.”
“All repeated acts or operations I performed had to be divisible by three and if I missed I felt impelled to do it all over again, even if it took hours.”
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
“There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment”
“The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”
“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.”
“Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.”
“Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.”
“Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
“The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.”
“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”