Nikola Tesla Quotes

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

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

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.

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