Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Nikola Tesla Quotes
Electrical EngineeringInnovationResearch and Development Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
EthicsGeneticsMoralityReproductionSociety The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
CreativityDedicationInnovationInspirationPassion I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Career DevelopmentChange and AdaptabilityHumor in AdversityResilience By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
FoundationInnovationPatienceProgressVision The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
ControlDeterminismFree WillHuman NatureInfluence The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
DiscoveryInnovationNatureResearchScience I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.
ChangeCivilizationDevelopmentGrowthProgress The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
EnergyInnovationNatureSustainability The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
ConceptionKnowledgePerceptionRealitySensory Experience All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
DevelopmentEnergyInnovationProgressSustainability The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
ConflictDoubtGrowthIdentityReligion From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
AutomationFutureLaborSocietyTechnology In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
ExistenceFateMortalityNature's LawTime 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.
EthicsEvolutionGeneticsScienceSociety The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
ExistenceHuman NatureInseparabilityPhilosophyVirtues and Failings Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
DietHealthLifestyleSelf-ControlWell-being I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
AmbitionCourageGrowthInspirationPerseverance With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.
ElectromagnetismExperimentationInnovationPhysicsVisual Phenomena When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.
ClarityInsanityReasonScienceThought 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.
AdaptabilityDiscoveryKnowledge EvolutionScientific ProgressUnderstanding The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
DevelopmentEmpowermentEnergyProgressTechnology If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
EconomicsHealthNutritionSocial ImpactWell-being There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
CommunicationFutureInnovationSocietyTechnology In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
AgricultureChemistryEnvironmentInnovationSustainability 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.
ImpactInnovationPatienceProgressVision It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Media and JournalismScience and InnovationSociety and Culture The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
AchievementDeterminationHopeProgressVision Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
ExistenceInfluenceInterconnectionNatureUniversal Laws Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
Human NatureNatural OrderPhilosophyReligionScience There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.