Nikola Tesla

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that of the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make one forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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

I could hear a fly walking across the room.

I do not eat meat.

I am not an inventor, I am a discoverer.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

I have been so misunderstood, so misrepresented, so abused, by my enemies, that it is a wonder I am still alive.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

I could not sleep for several nights for the sheer joy of it.

The harnessed power of the cosmos is the greatest gift we can bestow upon humanity.

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

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

I am a man of science, not a politician.

I do not marry, for I consider that for an inventor, marriage is a great obstacle.

My mother was an inventor of the first order.

I have no doubt that some of my ideas will be misinterpreted, misrepresented, and even ridiculed.

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.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.