Nikola Tesla All Quotes

#1. The development of Nikola Tesla's ideas by corporate governments has created a sick and dangerous world.

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#2. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant.

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#3. To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

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#4. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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#5. The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

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#6. The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

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#7. No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

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#8. 1908: A massive explosion over Tunguska, Siberia, leveled sixty to eighty million trees over 2,150 square kilometers. Blamed on an asteroid or comet, or Nikola Tesla's Coil. The Bermuda Triangle J

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#9. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

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#10. When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

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#11. Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

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#12. There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

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#13. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

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#14. It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

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#15. The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

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#16. 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.

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#17. Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. One day man will connect his
apparatus to the very wheel work of
the universe. The very forces that
motivate the planets in their orbits
and cause them to rotate will rotate
his own machinery.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours.

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#23. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

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#24. All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

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#25. All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

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#26. All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

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#27. Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

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#28. The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My

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#29. The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

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#30. 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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#31. All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.

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#32. We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.

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#33. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

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#34. Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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#35. As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

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#36. 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.

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#37. I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

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#38. I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

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#39. I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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#40. 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.

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#41. I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

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#42. antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.

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#43. 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.

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#44. As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

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#45. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

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#46. There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

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#47. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.

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#48. Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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#49. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

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#50. 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.

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#51. The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

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#52. We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

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#53. Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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.

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#56. The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

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#57. Of all things, I liked books best.

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#58. I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

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#59. All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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#60. The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

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#61. We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

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#62. From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

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#63. If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

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#64. When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.

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#65. What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

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#66. Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

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#67. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

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#68. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

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#69. 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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#70. We are just waves in time and space, changing continuously, and the illusion of individuality is produced through the concatenation of the rapidly succeeding phases of existence. What we define as likeness is merely the result of the symmetrical arrangement of molecules which compose our body.

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