Category Tesla

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

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.”

Nikola Tesla Says:  “The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.” 

Nikola Tesla Says:  “As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

Nikola Tesla Says:  “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. Owing to the similarity of…

Nikola Tesla Says:  “By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that…

Nikola Tesla Says:  “I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of…

Nikola Tesla Says:  “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…