I don't care that they stole my idea . .

I care that they don't have any of their own

Nikola Tesla
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency
and vibration.
Nikola Tesla
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.
Nikola Tesla
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla
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.
Nikola Tesla
If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
Nikola Tesla
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt
by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such
emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
Of all things, I liked books best.
Nikola Tesla
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals
and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which
is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can
only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...
Nikola Tesla
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain
knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this
core, but I know that it exists.
Nikola Tesla
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by
married men.

 Nikola Tesla
Everyone should consider his
body as a priceless gift from
one whom he loves above all, a
marvelous work of art, of
indescribable beauty, and
mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
a word, a breath, a look, nay, a
thought may injure it.
Nikola Tesla
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they
separate, man is no more
Nikola Tesla
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and
accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is
mine
Nikola Tesla
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed
only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the
struggle.
Nikola Tesla
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result
from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's
point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in
their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or
less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist
this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of
others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is
most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
Nikola Tesla
Todays scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they
wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which
has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains
certain known factors.
Nikola Tesla
When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before
applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept
this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of
individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a
unit? Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the
firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I
cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I see a friend
hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And now I see stricken down an
enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care
least for, and it still grieves me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a
whole?
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. Metaphysical proofs are, however,
not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science,
too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the
same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are
one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in
times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other
states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection. Still more: this
one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations
come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference
between the individual and the whole.
Nikola Tesla
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.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of
yesterday are today common occurrences
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Nature may reach the same result in many ways. Like a wave in the physical
world, in the infinite ocean of the medium which pervades all, so in the world of
organisms, in life, an impulse started proceeds onward, at times, may be, with the
speed of light, at times, again, so slowly that for ages and ages it seems to stay,
passing through processes of a complexity inconceivable to men, but in all its forms,
in all its stages, its energy ever and ever integrally present. A single ray of light

from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have
altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have
transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the
processes in Nature. In no way can we get such an overwhelming idea of the
grandeur of Nature than when we consider, that in accordance with the law of the
conservation of energy, throughout the Infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance,
and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.
Nikola Tesla
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
Nikola Tesla
The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man
remains.
Nikola Tesla
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused
me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has
taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation
of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the
incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the
gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most
persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are
wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of
millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it
is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is
true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.
Nikola Tesla
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is
the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But
if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a
rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only
expensive blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet
sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense.
But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary
idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in
its adolescence by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and
ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and
tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So
all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed
only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the
struggle." Nikola Tesla (at the end of his dream for Wardenclyffe)

 Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy

What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between
individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic
devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to
plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.