Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!
Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
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.
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.
So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
It is a simple feat of scientific, electrical engineering – only expensive – oh blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.