Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Teslawas a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating currentelectricity supply system...
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth10 July 1856
CitySmiljan, Croatia
inspirational yesterday today
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
use sound doe
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
beautiful men light
I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.
pride community understanding
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...
grateful path theory
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
ignorance evil effort
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.
zero future moon
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.
inspirational life desire
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
enlightenment natural universal
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
heat-of-the-sun land rivers
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land...
brain earth frequency
Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
substance matter primaries
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
mother mind taught
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
perception spheres knows
To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.