259 Quotes by Nikola Tesla

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

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.

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

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether.