Nikola Tesla

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.

Nikola Tesla

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Nikola Tesla

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.

Nikola Tesla

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

Nikola Tesla

Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Nikola Tesla

Misunderstanding are always cause by the inability of appreciating one another’s point of view. The best way to dispel ignorance of the doings of others is by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thoughts intercourse.

Nikola Tesla

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.

Nikola Tesla

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Nikola Tesla

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

Nikola Tesla

No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

Nikola Tesla