Nikola Tesla Quotes
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
February, 1919Source:
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
June, 1900
...Tesla went beyond borders of his exact science to foretell what lies in the future...a modern Prometheus who dared grab after the stars...
January 15th, 1952
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
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.
July 23rd, 1934Source:
Nikola Tesla was not only a great scientist but also a great patriot; he loved his people and his country as we are building it... We are paying our debt to him for his work for the benefit of mankind and for his love of his country.
March 19th, 1944
There can be no energy in gross matter except that which had been, or is being, received from without.
August 18th, 1935
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
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
January 7th, 1905