Tesla Quotes

“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.”

Nikola Tesla
“Tesla's Ray” (Time, July 23rd, 1934)

“It is quite evident, though, that this squandering cannot go on indefinitely, for geological investigations prove our fuel stores to be limited. So great has been the drain on them of late years that the specter of exhaustion is looming up threateningly in the distance...”

Nikola Tesla
“Our Future Motive Power” (Everyday Science & Mechanics, December, 1931)

“Technical invention is akin to architecture and the experts must in time come to the same conclusions I have reached long ago. Sooner or later my power system will have to be adopted in its entirety and so far as I am concerned it is as good as done.”

Nikola Tesla
“World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy” (Telegraph & Telegraph Age, October 16th, 1927)

“If I were ever assailed by doubt of ultimate success I would dismiss it by remembering the words of that great philosopher, Lord Kelvin, who after witnessing some of my experiments said to me with tears in his eyes: 'I am sure you will do it.'”

Nikola Tesla
“World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy” (Telegraph & Telegraph Age, October 16th, 1927)

“I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.”

Nikola Tesla
“Tesla Maps Our Electrical Future” (Science & Invention, April, 1930)

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

Nikola Tesla
“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” (Modern Mechanix & Inventions, July, 1934)