Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back? Nikola Tesla More Quotes by Nikola Tesla More Quotes From Nikola Tesla Inventors don't have time for married life. Nikola Tesla married-lifeinventormarried 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 curiosityinsanitythinking The last 29 days of the month are the toughest! Nikola Tesla lastsmonths Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest. Nikola Tesla minesmastersmay Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. Nikola Tesla sanctuaryselfjoy For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Nikola Tesla buddhistchristianwise My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe Nikola Tesla receiveruniversebrain Great moments are born great opportunity. Nikola Tesla oppurtunitybornmoments I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. Nikola Tesla electric-currentbrightnesslamps It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world. Nikola Tesla engineeringsimpledoubt Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life. Nikola Tesla littlesdiscoverymen My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization. Nikola Tesla sacrificehard-worklaw The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain Nikola Tesla smartphonesbraininspirational Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside. Nikola Tesla principlesmattergiving Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse. Nikola Tesla appreciateignoranceviews 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 movementinspirationalmoving Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences Nikola Tesla originalityinfluencesolitude A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature. Nikola Tesla starseyefall I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come. Nikola Tesla discoverygivingyears Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents. Nikola Tesla marconifellowspatents
