Famous Nikola Tesla quotes for every occasion

Nikola Tesla is identified as one of the greatest inventors in the history of humankind. This is because he developed the alternating current electrical system, which is the foundation for wireless technologies. He also discovered the rotating magnetic field. Nikola Tesla quotes are used because they carry much depth and meaning.

During Tesla’s birth, there was a raging storm which the midwife thought was a bad omen. As a result, she stated that the child would be of darkness. However, his mother refused and claimed that he would be a child of light. As his mother prophesied, her son became an electrical engineer, futurist and inventor who contributed to the design of alternating current.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

Tesla's inventions have contributed to the welfare of humanity today. Without the discovery of alternating current, radios, radar, x-rays, and many others technological advancements would not exist. Nikola Tesla quotes on love, energy, and life, in general, may motivate and make your life better.

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Nikola Tesla quotes on life

• "It is paradoxical, yet true, to say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."
• "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain."
• "You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."
• "We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences."
• "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."
• "Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
• "Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors."
• "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."
• "The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea."

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Quotes about Nikola Tesla

• "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."
• "The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another."
• "What the result of these investigations will be the future will tell, but whatever they may be, and to whatever this principle may lead, I shall be sufficiently recompensed if later it will be admitted that I have contributed a share, however small, to the advancement of science."
• "I don’t care that they stole my idea, I care that they don’t have any of their own."
• "Of all things, I liked books best."
• "As I review the events of my past life, I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies."
• "There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb."
• "My conviction has grown so strong that I no longer look on this plan of energy or intelligence transmission as a mere theoretical possibility, but as a serious problem in electrical engineering, which must be carried out someday."

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Nikola Tesla quotes on science

• "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."
• "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."
• "If 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. Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."
• "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
• "Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge."
• "The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed, we get a better understanding of nature, and our conceptions and views are modified."
• "The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun."
• "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."

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Nikola Tesla quotes predicting the future

• "In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations."
• "The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."

Nikola Tesla quotes God

• "What one man calls God; another calls the laws of physics."
• "The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible."

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Nikola Tesla quotes antisocial behavior

• "What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment."

Nikola Tesla love quotes

• "It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give."
• "Inventors don’t have time for married life."

Nikola Tesla quotes energy

• "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."

Quotes from Nikola Tesla are a source of enlightenment in the world we live in today. Tesla made it his goal to make the world a better place the best way he could. His words inspire each one of us to strive to make a positive difference wherever we are. The quotes of Nikola Tesla will forever remain precious to the human race.

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