Nikola Tesla Quotes

“Tesla believed his mind to be superior to everyone else's - and he let others know it.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” —Albert Einstein”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“The heart of radio transmission is based on four tuned circuits, which are used for transmitting radio waves and receiving them. This is Tesla's original concept, not Marconi's.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.” —Nikola Tesla”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Many people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.” —Benjamin Franklin”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“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 doing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.” —Nikola Tesla”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Many people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“The next time you pick up your cell phone, remember to thank Nikola Tesla.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Lastly, Tesla was born during a lightning storm. It was at the moment of his birth that the midwife wrung her hands and declared to his family that this was a bad omen. She told them “this child will be a child of darkness.” Tesla's mother immediately replied, “No, he will be a child of light.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” —Mark Twain”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“Many of Tesla's inventions still remain classified. People have requested some of them via the Freedom of Information Act, and have received them, although they are highly censored”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“One of Tesla's most intriguing inventions was something called a teleforce weapon, or death ray.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“It was in Colorado Springs that Tesla created man-made lighting. He even lit 200 lamps, all without wires, from 25 miles away.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“The Tesla coil laid the foundation for the development of wireless technologies and is still used today in radio technology. The next time you pick up your cell phone, remember to thank Nikola Tesla.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“The present is theirs; the future for which I really worked, is mine.” —Nikola Tesla”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“They really are not too concerned with the world they are living in because they are too busy inventing a new world.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”
― Hourly History, Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End