Nikola Tesla

The world has been too slow to grasp the true significance of my inventions.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily grasped. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

I have been called by some a visionary, by others a dreamer, but I am a practical man.

I have an absolute aversion to pearls.

I have a peculiar horror of women's ear-rings.

I felt that I could not touch the hair of other people, except with gloves.

The wireless transmission of power is a distinct possibility.

The time will come when the forces of the universe will be brought under the control of man.

I have been misinterpreted and misunderstood.

The greatest discovery of all time will be the discovery of a new source of energy.

I do not care to be a millionaire. I only want to be great.

I consider myself a very fortunate man, because I have been able to devote my entire life to the pursuit of knowledge and the service of humanity.

I have perfected a machine which will make it possible to transmit energy without wires to any point on the globe.

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own.

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

The theory of relativity is a mass of errors and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of the great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

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

Of all things, I liked books best.