Tesla Quotes

“If this does not appeal to you sufficiently to recognize in me a discoverer of principles, do me, at least, the justice of calling me an "inventor of some beautiful pieces of electrical apparatus.”

Nikola Tesla
“Can Bridge the Gap to Mars” (New York Times, June 23rd, 1907)

“If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.”

Nikola Tesla
“Mr. Tesla on the Wireless Transmission of Power” (New York World, May 19th, 1907)

“It is probable that we shall perfect instruments for indicating the altitude of a place by means of a circuit, properly constructed and arranged, and I have thought of a number of other uses to which this principle may be put.”

Nikola Tesla
“Tesla's New Discovery” (New York Sun, January 30th, 1901)

“The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.”

Nikola Tesla
“Famous Scientific Illusions” (Electrical Experimenter, February, 1919)

“...the papers, which thirty years ago conferred upon me the honor of American citizenship, are always kept in a safe, while my orders, diplomas, degrees, gold medals and other distinctions are packed away in old trunks.”

Nikola Tesla
“My Inventions V – The Magnifying Transmitter” (Electrical Experimenter, June, 1919)

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”

Nikola Tesla
“A Machine to End War” (Liberty, February, 1935)