If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe. Nikola Tesla More Quotes by Nikola Tesla More Quotes From Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. Nikola Tesla slave-labor twenties civilization Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence. Nikola Tesla lightning odds secret The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Nikola Tesla race passing-away men I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. Nikola Tesla cosmic motive rays All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources. Nikola Tesla source energy should-have So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement. Nikola Tesla three energy purpose Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility. Nikola Tesla success running science Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors. Nikola Tesla inspirational life science 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 hard-work taken science 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 self sea inspirational To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world. Nikola Tesla mind desire men 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. Nikola Tesla ust littles science The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. Nikola Tesla lightning odds ideas It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. Nikola Tesla machinery succeed men The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Nikola Tesla flames fire may So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work. Nikola Tesla three energy problem My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. Nikola Tesla rewards sacrifice law His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle. Nikola Tesla sorry book knowledge It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study. Nikola Tesla memorable discovery two Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... . Nikola Tesla forever character past
