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Nikola Tesla Quotes

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What Nature does not choose to reveal to us, it is no use trying to force from her by bolts and screws.

April 6th, 1897

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

February, 1943

Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

March, 1919

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

June, 1900

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

How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my ideas carried out at Niagara and marveled at the unfathomable mystery of the mind.

March, 1919

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet...

January 7th, 1905

Mses., be careful, do not marry too young because then men marry you mostly for your beauty.

1974

I do not believe in laziness, and I should like to see the loafer wiped from the face or the earth; but I want that those who are willing to work should accomplish their results with the least labor and in the best way.

December 18th, 1904

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

June, 1900