Nikola Tesla Quotes - Page 6
I know I'm its father but I don't like it. I just don't like it. It's a nuisance. I never listen to it... (concerning radio)
July 18th, 1932
Mses., be careful, do not marry too young because then men marry you mostly for your beauty.
1974
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
October, 1947Source:
I am being driven to the conclusion that Tesla was the greatest electrical inventor we have had on our roll of membership; in fact we might go as far as to say that he was the greatest inventor in the realm of electrical engineering.
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
May 23rd, 1909Source:
...these scientific developments may even affect our morals and customs. Perhaps we shall shortly get so used to this state of things that nobody will feel the slightest embarrassment while he is conscious that his skeleton and other particulars are being scrutinized by indelicate observers.
April 8th, 1896Source:
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.
January 7th, 1905
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.
July, 1934
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
February, 1943
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.
January 16th, 1910