Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla Quotes

“He has yet to be adequately credited for his invention of radio, and Edison has always been thought of as the "father of electricity" and for “his” work in alternating current. Edison did not work with A/C. A/C was Tesla’s lifelong work.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in  its growth by the succeeding frost.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“It’s interesting to note that in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, from his laboratory in England, used the Tesla’s coil system to transmit Morse code across the Atlantic. Everything Marconi did was based on Tesla’s work.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“His experiments and devices always came out how he imagined. Tesla said, “Twenty times I have imagined success and twenty times I have won that success.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“Everyone expected something great from Tesla, but this was an unexpected invention. The boat was equipped with “a borrowed mind” (Tesla, 2014). The boat moved around the water and red lights flashed on and off. The crowd thought Tesla was controlling the boat with his mind, but he was actually sending wireless signals to the mechanism using a hand-held control box and battery power.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“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.” ~ N.Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“I do not think there is any thrill that can ago through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“He was famous, respected, brilliant and broke. Tesla held more than 300 known patents, but was never able to convert his inventions into long-term financial success.”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“But not until I had attained manhood did I realize that I was an inventor.” ~ N. Tesla”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius

“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” (Jones, 2014).”
― Cynthia A. Parker, Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius