30 Nikola Tesla quotes that reveal his genius

I don’t think there is a more intense emotion for an inventor than seeing his creations at work. These emotions make you forget to eat, sleep, everything.

Mutual understanding would be greatly facilitated by the use of a universal language (Esperanto).

Science is, therefore, a perversion of itself, unless it has as its ultimate end, to improve humanity.

To me, the universe is simply a big machine that never came into being and will never end.

Everything great in the past has been mocked, condemned, fought and suppressed, only to emerge with greater power and more triumph after the struggle.

If you knew the magnificence of 3, 6 and 9, then you have the key to the universe.

The world is not ready for this. It is something far beyond our time, but the laws will prevail, and one day they will be a triumphant success.

My first observations terrified me when I was alone in my laboratory at night, because something mysterious, if not supernatural, was present in them.

Poor observation is just a form of ignorance, responsible for many morbid and foolish ideas that end up prevailing.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.

We are automatons completely controlled by the forces of the environment, being tossed about like corks on the surface of water, but the results of external impulses are misinterpreted as free will.

We crave new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. Yesterday’s wonders are commonplace nowadays.

If you want to discover the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Most people are so absorbed in contemplating the outside world that they are totally oblivious to what is going on inside them.

Our virtues and our faults are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is nothing.

The idea came like a flash and in an instant the truth was revealed.

The scientific man does not aim for immediate results. He doesn’t expect his most advanced ideas to be quickly picked up. His work is like that of a farmer for the future.

It is a paradox, still true, to say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become aware of our limitations.

In all space there is energy… it is (only) a matter of time before men succeed in associating their mechanisms with harnessing this energy.

Today’s scientists think deeply rather than clearly. You have to be sane to think clearly, but you can think deeply and be insane.

Scientists today have replaced mathematics with experiments, and they step away, equation after equation, and eventually build a structure that has nothing to do with reality.

The day we discover exactly what electricity is, that will mark a probably bigger event, more important than any other in human history.

Human development fundamentally depends on invention.

The present belongs to them, but the future I’ve always worked for belongs to me.

Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our multifaceted energies.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give every deserving individual what is necessary for a safe existence of a human being, we must offer more machines, more power to society.