Nikola Tesla

1856–1943 · Serbian-American engineer and inventor

Topics: physics, learning, mathematics

• The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. 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

• Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

  — Nikola Tesla

• Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

  — Nikola Tesla

• 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.

  — Nikola Tesla