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
opening-up ignorant intellectual
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
views space would-be
A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.
hate light world
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
inspirational men thinking
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
keys magnificence if-only-you-knew
If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
men mind our-actions
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
inspirational life wisdom
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
brain earth response
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
thinking insanity curiosity
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.
mean men sea
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.
real world doe
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.
men law physics
What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.
sorry book knowledge
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.
jealous men law
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.