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
slave-labor civilization robots
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
art men training
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.
rays motive cosmic
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
men succeed kinetic-energy
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
mother men effort
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.
taken hard-work science
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
thinking mind overcoming
The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.
men one-day causes
One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.
mother taught mental-power
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
men discovery enabling
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
mistake making-mistakes we-all-make-mistakes
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
energy devices
No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
inspirational smartphones brain
The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain
christian wise buddhist
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.