Zitate Nikola Tesla
über Thomas Alva Edison, New York Times, 19. Oktober 1931
Original engl.: "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 doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."
To a secretary, as quoted in Tesla: Man Out of Time (1998) by Margaret Cheney, p. 127 (footnote). https://books.google.pl/books/about/Tesla.html?id=HIuK7iLO9zgC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Never%20trust%20a%20Jew&f=false
Tesla's anti-Semitism appeared sporadic and was unusual among gentiles of his time.
Address at the Belgrade train station (1 June 1892)
Electrical Engineer, (24 Jun 1892), 11, 609.
My Inventions (1919)
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Kontext: 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.
„We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.“
Quelle: Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
"The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", The Century (Jun 1900), 211. Collected in The Century (1900), Vol. 60, 211