Nikola Tesla Quotes

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

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

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