„Müsste Edison eine Nadel im Heuhaufen finden, würde er einer fleißigen Biene gleich Strohhalm um Strohhalm untersuchen, bis er das Gesuchte gefunden hat.“
— Nikola Tesla
über Thomas Alva Edison, New York Times, 19. Oktober 1931
Zitate von Nikola Tesla
1 2
Nikola Tesla
Geburtstag: 10. Juli 1856
Todesdatum: 7. Januar 1943
Werbung
Nikola Tesla war ein Erfinder, Physiker und Elektroingenieur. Sein Lebenswerk ist geprägt durch zahlreiche Neuerungen auf dem Gebiet der Elektrotechnik, insbesondere der elektrischen Energietechnik, wie die Entwicklung des heute als Zweiphasenwechselstrom bezeichneten Systems zur elektrischen Energieübertragung.
Zitate Nikola Tesla
Werbung
„If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.“
— Nikola Tesla
First attibution is to Ralph Bergstresser who claims to have heard this from Tesla in a conversation "following an experience with the Maharaja's son".
Werbung
„What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...“
— Nikola Tesla
Context: While I have not lost faith in its potentialities, my views have changed since. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
Werbung
„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
Context: 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.
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
„I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it.“
— Nikola Tesla
Context: He had the highest regard for my attainments and gave me every evidence of his complete faith in my ability to ultimately achieve what I had set out to do. I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
About the role of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the failure of Tesla's "World System" project
„Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.“
— Nikola Tesla
Context: Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. 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.
"Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" (February 1892)
„To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.“
— Nikola Tesla
Context: According to an adopted theory, every ponderable atom is differentiated from a tenuous fluid, filling all space merely by spinning motion, as a whirl of water in a calm lake. By being set in movement this fluid, the ether, becomes gross matter. Its movement arrested, the primary substance reverts to its normal state. It appears, then, possible for man through harnessed energy of the medium and suitable agencies for starting and stopping ether whirls to cause matter to form and disappear. At his command, almost without effort on his part, old worlds would vanish and new ones would spring into being. He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, adjust its distance from the sun, guide it on its eternal journey along any path he might choose, through the depths of the universe. He could make planets collide and produce his suns and stars, his heat and light; he could originate life in all its infinite forms. To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
