Nikola Tesla Quotes

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

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.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

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.

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.

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

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

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

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.

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.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

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

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

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

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.

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

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.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

It’s not the love you make. It's the love you give.

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.

No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.

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.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

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

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

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.

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 scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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

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.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

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.

We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

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

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

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.

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 really worked, is mine.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

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

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

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

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

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.

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