Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.
It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.
I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.
No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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.
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
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...
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether.
All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.
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.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.