Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

— Nikola Tesla
Innovation

Nikola Tesla Quotes

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.

— Nikola Tesla
Motivational About Life Challenges Struggle Progress

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth...

— Nikola Tesla

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

— Nikola Tesla

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...

— Nikola Tesla

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

— Nikola Tesla
About Ideas

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

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

— Nikola Tesla

Inventors don’t have time for married life.

— Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

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.

— Nikola Tesla
Science Imagination

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Nikola Tesla

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

— Nikola Tesla
Medicine

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

— Nikola Tesla

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

— Nikola Tesla

My brain is only a receiver in the Universe.

— Nikola Tesla
Universe About the Brain

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

— Nikola Tesla
Buddhist

I have always been ahead of my time.

— Nikola Tesla

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

— Nikola Tesla
About Civilization
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