Nikola Tesla Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

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.

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

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

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

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