Nikola Tesla.

Modern Science Says: ‘the Sun Is the Past, the Earth Is the Present, the Moon Is the Future.’ from an Incandescent Mass We Have Originated, and into a Frozen Mass We Shall Turn. Merciless Is the Law of Nature, and Rapidly and Irresistibly We Are Drawn to Our Doom.

Electrical Science Has Revealed to Us the True Nature of Light, Has Provided Us with Innumerable Appliances and Instruments of Precision, and Has Thereby Vastly Added to the Exactness of Our Knowledge.

There Is No Doubt That Some Plant Food, Such as Oatmeal, Is More Economical Than Meat, and Superior to It in Regard to Both Mechanical and Mental Performance. Such Food, Moreover, Taxes Our Digestive Organs Decidedly Less, And, in Making Us More Contented and Sociable, Produces an Amount of Good Difficult to Estimate.

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.

In the Twenty First Century, the Robot Will Take the Place Which Slave Labor Occupied in Ancient Civilization.

Though We May Never Be Able to Comprehend Human Life, We Know Certainly That It Is a Movement, of Whatever Nature It Be. the Existence of Movement Unavoidably Implies a Body Which Is Being Moved and a Force Which Is Moving It. Hence, Wherever There Is Life, There Is a Mass Moved by a Force. All Mass Possesses Inertia; All Force Tends to Persist.

There Is No Conflict Between the Ideal of Religion and the Ideal of Science, but Science Is Opposed to Theological Dogmas Because Science Is Founded on Fact. to Me, the Universe Is Simply a Great Machine Which Never Came into Being and Never Will End. the Human Being Is No Exception to the Natural Order. Man, Like the Universe, Is a Machine.

The Scientific Man Does Not Aim at an Immediate Result. He Does Not Expect That His Advanced Ideas Will Be Readily Taken Up. His Work Is Like That of the Planter for the Future. His Duty Is to Lay the Foundation for Those Who Are to Come, and Point the Way.

With Ideas It Is Like with Dizzy Heights You Climb: at First They Cause You Discomfort and You Are Anxious to Get Down, Distrustful of Your Own Powers; but Soon the Remoteness of the Turmoil of Life and the Inspiring Influence of the Altitude Calm Your Blood; Your Step Gets Firm and Sure and You Begin to Look for Dizzier Heights.

I Do Not Think You Can Name Many Great Inventions That Have Been Made by Married Men.

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.

Every Living Being Is an Engine Geared to the Wheelwork of the Universe. Though Seemingly Affected Only by Its Immediate Surrounding, the Sphere of External Influence Extends to Infinite Distance.

If We Want to Reduce Poverty and Misery, If We Want to Give to Every Deserving Individual What Is Needed for a Safe Existence of an Intelligent Being, We Want to Provide More Machinery, More Power. Power Is Our Mainstay, the Primary Source of Our Many Sided Energies.

The Newspapers of the Twenty First Century Will Give a Mere ‘Stick’ in the Back Pages to Accounts of Crime or Political Controversies, but Will Headline on the Front Pages the Proclamation of a New Scientific Hypothesis.

I Myself Eschew All Stimulants. I Also Practically Abstain from Meat.

By an Irony of Fate, My First Employment Was as a Draughtsman. I Hated Drawing; It Was for Me the Very Worst of Annoyances. Fortunately, It Was Not Long Before I Secured the Position I Sought, That of Chief Electrician to the Telephone Company.

The Spread of Civilization May Be Likened to a Fire; First, a Feeble Spark, Next a Flickering Flame, Then a Mighty Blaze, Ever Increasing in Speed and Power.

Electrical Science Has Disclosed to Us the More Intimate Relation Existing Between Widely Different Forces and Phenomena and Has Thus Led Us to a More Complete Comprehension of Nature and Its Many Manifestations to Our Senses.

Archimedes Was My Ideal. I Admired the Works of Artists, but to My Mind, They Were Only Shadows and Semblances. the Inventor, I Thought, Gives to the World Creations Which Are Palpable, Which Live and Work.

I Constructed a Laboratory in the Neighborhood of Pike’s Peak. the Conditions in the Pure Air of the Colorado Mountains Proved Extremely Favorable for My Experiments, and the Results Were Most Gratifying to Me.

The History of Science Shows That Theories Are Perishable. with Every New Truth That Is Revealed We Get a Better Understanding of Nature and Our Conceptions and Views Are Modified.

From My Childhood I Had Been Intended for the Clergy. This Prospect Hung Like a Dark Cloud on My Mind.

The Trend of Opinion Among Eugenists Is That We Must Make Marriage More Difficult. Certainly No One Who Is Not a Desirable Parent Should Be Permitted to Produce Progeny.

The Harness of Waterfalls Is the Most Economical Method Known for Drawing Energy from the Sun.

We Wind a Simple Ring of Iron with Coils; We Establish the Connections to the Generator, and with Wonder and Delight We Note the Effects of Strange Forces Which We Bring into Play, Which Allow Us to Transform, to Transmit and Direct Energy at Will.

I Have Already Demonstrated, by Crucial Tests, the Practicability of Signaling by My System from One to Any Other Point of the Globe, No Matter How Remote, and I Shall Soon Convert the Disbelievers.

As in Nature, All Is Ebb and Tide, All Is Wave Motion, so It Seems That in All Branches of Industry, Alternating Currents Electric Wave Motion Will Have the Sway.

When a Coil Is Operated with Currents of Very High Frequency, Beautiful Brush Effects May Be Produced, Even If the Coil Be of Comparatively Small Dimensions. the Experimenter May Vary Them in Many Ways, And, If It Were Nothing Else, They Afford a Pleasing Sight.

Of the Various Branches of Electrical Investigation, Perhaps the Most Interesting and Immediately the Most Promising Is That Dealing with Alternating Currents.

The Universal Utilization of Water Power and Its Long Distance Transmission Will Supply Every Household with Cheap Power and Will Dispense with the Necessity of Burning Fuel. the Struggle for Existence Being Lessened, There Should Be Development Along Ideal Rather Than Material Lines.

The Feeling Is Constantly Growing on Me That I Had Been the First to Hear the Greeting of One Planet to Another.

All Knowledge or Form Conception Is Evoked Through the Medium of the Eye, Either in Response to Disturbances Directly Received on the Retina or to Their Fainter Secondary Effects and Reverberations. Other Sense Organs Can Only Call Forth Feelings Which Have No Reality of Existence and of Which No Conception Can Be Formed.

We Have Soon to Have Everywhere Smoke Annihilators, Dust Absorbers, Ozonizers, Sterilizers of Water, Air, Food and Clothing, and Accident Preventers on Streets, Elevated Roads and in Subways. It Will Become Next to Impossible to Contract Disease Germs or Get Hurt in the City, and Country Folk Will Got to Town to Rest and Get Well.

The Earth Is Bountiful, and Where Her Bounty Fails, Nitrogen Drawn from the Air Will Refertilize Her Womb. I Developed a Process for This Purpose in 1900. It Was Perfected Fourteen Years Later Under the Stress of War by German Chemists.

There Is No Memory or Retentive Faculty Based on Lasting Impression. What We Designate as Memory Is but Increased Responsiveness to Repeated Stimuli.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture Will Be Far More Important in the Cabinet of the President of the United States Who Holds Office in the Year 2035 Than the Secretary of War.

Now the Soft Voiced Gentle Woman of My Reverent Worship Has All but Vanished, in Her Place Has Come the Woman Who Thinks That Her Chief Success in Life Lies in Making Herself as Much as Possible Like Man in Dress, Voice and Actions, in Sports and Achievements of Every Kind

There Is Something Within Me That Might Be Illusion as It Is Often Case with Young Delighted People, but If I Would Be Fortunate to Achieve Some of My Ideals, It Would Be on the Behalf of the Whole of Humanity. If Those Hopes Would Become Fulfilled, the Most Exciting Thought Would Be That It Is a Deed of a Serb.