Nikola Tesla

"We are whirling through endless space with inconceivable speed."

"Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment."

"The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being."

"I have merely discovered that nature manufactures a most extraordinary substance."

"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains."

"Mind, in the highest degree of development, is like a universal transformer."

"There is no more powerful agitator than a man with a great idea whose time has come."

"The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, depends on the attitude of the times and of individuals having the power in the estimation of historian and fact."

"Perhaps the cruelest invention of the human race is the printing press."

"Tremendous mental power is often allied with a peculiar nervousness."

"The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences."

"The most important discovery will be to learn how to tame the cosmic ray."

"Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light."

"Genius is little more than a human who keeps the intensity of his youthful curiosity."

"The pursuit of knowledge should be the primary objective of human life."

"I want to live to be 300 years old."

"The scientific man is not diminished by the belief that his life is not the most important thing in the universe."

"Nature will have the last word; she always does."

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

"The modernistic creations of the artist and the designer of today are the common objects of tomorrow."

"The scientific principle which I have established cannot be shaken."

"We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered for us."

"All peoples everywhere should have freedom to think and believe as they wish."

"I am convinced that the human species will endure."

"The idea is the beginning of all material things."

"What may appear impossible today will one day become a physical reality."

"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"I have been assailed by the same forces which have attacked me all through my career—ignorance, prejudice, and the inertia of human minds."

"I can well conceive of an eventually ideal existence in which nations will be united in a relation of greater harmony."

"The feeling that I am not yet in possession of the truth makes me thirst for knowledge."