Nicola Tesla Quotes

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

 

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla 

 

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla 

 

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Nikola Tesla 

 

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.
Nikola Tesla 

 

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla 

 

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I think the two greatest minds in Science for me in the 20th century were Einstein and Tesla. I also liked what Edison did with Incandescent lighting too. But even fluorescents were invented I believe by Tesla in addition to alternating current which is used everywhere around the world now. Imagine life without alternating current and fluorescent lighting for a moment. Takes your breath away doesn't it?