30 Brilliant Nikola Tesla Quotes About Science & Invention

30 Brilliant Nikola Tesla Quotes About Science & Invention

Last updated on December 27th, 2023 at 12:03 pm

โ€œNikola Tesla monumentโ€œ, by Jonathan Crawshaw, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Croatia. He was a Serbian-American inventor, electric and mechanical engineer who invented the Tesla coil which is used in Radio Technology and Alternating Current Electricity. He alsoย discovered the rotating magnetic field that contributed to the design of the modern Alternating-Current machinery. Together with his discovery and invention he also developed the Three-Phased System of electric power transmission.

If you have a keen interest in science and inventions, you would definitely enjoy these 30 Brilliant Nikola Tesla quotes below:

Nikola Tesla Quotes

โ€œMy definition of electricity is invisible light.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, In: George Woodward Warder, Invisible Light; Or, The Electric Theory of Creation

โ€œThe progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Electrical Experimenter (1919)
โ€œPeace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.โ€

โ€œTo know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Electrical World and Engineer (7 January 1905)

โ€œI have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931)
โ€œThe future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

โ€œSometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, My Inventions Nikola Teslaโ€™s Autobiography (ed. 2014)

โ€œMy ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earthโ€ฆโ€

NIKOLA TESLA, The Nikola Tesla Treasury (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2013) โ€“ ISBN: 9781627932561
โ€œOur virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.โ€

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

NIKOLA TESLA, The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (ed. 1894)

โ€œIt is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (ed. 1894)
โ€œMy belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and the sacrifices made.โ€

โ€œIt is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering โ€” only expensive โ€” blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, The Nikola Tesla Treasury (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2013) โ€“ ISBN: 9781627932561

โ€œWe should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should affect a radical reform in the character of the food.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy: With Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sunโ€™s Energy (ed. 2008)
โ€œWe crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.โ€

โ€œThe present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla, The Secret Libraries (2016). โ€œNikola Tesla Quotesโ€ฆ Vol. 3: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Nikola Teslaโ€

โ€œWoman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, โ€œWhen woman is bossโ€. โ€œColliersโ€ Magazine, January 30, 1926.
โ€œOf all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.โ€

โ€œOur senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2013). โ€œThe Wireless Teslaโ€, p.17, Simon and Schuster

โ€œA century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, โ€œMachine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereckโ€. โ€œLibertyโ€, http://www.pbs.org. February 1937.ย 
โ€œA new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.โ€

โ€œThe scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, โ€œRadio Power Will Revolutionize the Worldโ€. Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 193.

โ€œSo astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2013). โ€œThe Wireless Teslaโ€, p.22, Simon and Schuster
โ€œThe entire earth will be converted into a huge brain.โ€

โ€œEvery effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2014). โ€œMy Inventions Nikola Teslaโ€™s Autobiographyโ€, p.2

โ€œNature may reach the same result in many ways.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2013). โ€œThe Illustrated Teslaโ€, p.142, Simon and Schuster
โ€œEach day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.โ€

โ€œWhen natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2014). โ€œMy Inventions Nikola Teslaโ€™s Autobiographyโ€, p.26

โ€œThe last 29 days of the month are the toughest!โ€

NIKOLA TESLA, Nikola Tesla (2016). โ€œMy Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]โ€, p.59, eKitap Projesi
โ€œThe idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.โ€

If you liked our collection of 30 Brilliant Nikola Tesla Quotes About Science & Invention, you would perhaps also be interested in our short collection of 35 famous quotes from Albert Einstein.

Naveen Kumar is a writer and has a thing for collecting quotes and sharing them with people. Naveen is a space enthusiast. When he is not spreading good vibes or motivating people through quotes, you can find him sipping coffee while reading classic literature or on a long road drive.

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