Quote #1236

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1218

"Inventors don't have time for married life"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1196

"I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1171

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1149

"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1126

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1098

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1070

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1054

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1031

"I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #1009

"Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #982

"Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #961

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #942

"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #913

"With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #886

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #863

"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"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #843

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #819

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything"
- Nikola Tesla

Quote #792

"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"
- Nikola Tesla