The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world. Nikola Tesla More Quotes by Nikola Tesla More Quotes From Nikola Tesla In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being Nikola Tesla crystalsexistenceprinciples Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. Nikola Tesla tiesstarsthinking Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved. Nikola Tesla spacesoulbelieve 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. Nikola Tesla wisdominspirationallife Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. Nikola Tesla electric-poweroilneeds 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 inspirationallooksart Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies. Nikola Tesla law-of-attractionbrainpositive Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. Nikola Tesla dormantprogresscivilization Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe. Nikola Tesla balanceperfectmay What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics. Nikola Tesla physicslawmen The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead. Nikola Tesla realdoeworld The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Nikola Tesla buddhistchristianway Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Nikola Tesla minutesperceptionworld The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. Nikola Tesla being-alonecreativityloneliness So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet. Nikola Tesla planetsconnectionsfacts 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. Nikola Tesla ignorantopening-upintellectual Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent. Nikola Tesla ignorancescienceknowledge All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether Nikola Tesla primariessubstancematter The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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. 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 insanerealitythinking I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla inspirationalmenthinking
