Nikola Tesla Quotes

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.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

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.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Of all things, I liked books best.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.