Category Quotations

Nikola Tesla Says: “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

Nikola Tesla Says: “Power can be, and at no distant date will be, transmitted without wires, for all commercial uses, such as the lighting of homes and the driving of aeroplanes. I have discovered the essential principles, and it only…

Nikola Tesla Says: “My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.”

Nikola Tesla Says: “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.”

Nikola Tesla Says: “There were many days when [I] did not know where my next meal was coming from. But I was never afraid to work, I went where some men were digging a ditch … [and] said I wanted…

Nikola Tesla Says: “As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in…

Nikola Tesla Says: “Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.”