Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla US (Serbian-born) electrical inventor (1857 - 1943)


Nikola Tesla - Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
- 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.

Nikola Tesla - New York Times, October 19, 1931
- If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla -
- Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.