Quotes from Nikola Tesla

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

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.

Today's 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.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.