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Nikola Tesla — Portrait after a picture by Napoleon Sarony (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Nikola Tesla

Serbian-American engineer and inventor

1856–1943

6 quotes, most often on Science.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
- Science
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 really worked, is mine.
“A Visit to Nikola Tesla” by Dragislav L. Petković, Politika (April 1927)
- Time
- Work
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
“The Problem of Increasing Human Energy”, Century Illustrated Magazine (June 1900)
- Virtue
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
“Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency” (February 1892)
- Science
- Technology
To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man’s grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
Man’s Greatest Achievement (1908; 1930)
- Science
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up.
“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World”, Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
- Science

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