WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Nikola Tesla

Inventor & electrical engineer

Portrait of Nikola Tesla
Born
10 July 1856
Died
7 January 1943
Lived in
Smiljan, Graz, Budapest, Paris & New York

Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, studied engineering in Graz, and worked across Europe before moving to the United States. His inventions and experiments helped establish alternating-current power systems and explored motors, radio, remote control, and high-frequency electricity.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

At Madison Square Garden in 1898, he demonstrated a small radio-controlled boat. Some spectators reportedly suspected that a trained animal was hidden inside it.

Words by Nikola Tesla

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
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“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
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“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.”
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“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”
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“Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”
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“Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.”
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“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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.”
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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
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“As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.”
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