Nikola Tesla

"as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

- Nikola Tesla

"Our virtues and our failures are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one."

- Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

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

- Nikola Tesla

"I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own."

- Nikola Tesla

"All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."

- Nikola Tesla

"The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost."

- Nikola Tesla

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."

- Nikola Tesla

"The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists."

- Nikola Tesla

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."

- Nikola Tesla

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.."

- Nikola Tesla

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

- Nikola Tesla