A man who knew he was changing reality.
25 quotes from this great inventor- Nikola Tesla
1. The action of even small beings leads to change throughout the Universe.
2. My brain is just a receiver. In the universe, there is a nucleus from which we draw knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated the secrets of this core, but I know it exists.
3. I don’t need models, drawings, experiments. When ideas come to my mind, I begin to build the device in my imagination, alter the construction, refine it and turn it on. And it is completely irrelevant to me whether I am conducting tests in my mind or in the workshop – the results are the same.
4. Do you know the phrase “you can’t jump over your head”? This is a fallacy. A man can do anything.
5. The great mystery of our existence is yet to be revealed, it may turn out that even death is not the end.
6. The highest goal of human development is the complete domination of consciousness over the material world, the use of the forces of nature to meet human needs.
7. Life is, and always will be, an equation that cannot be solved, though it contains several known factors.
8. Modern scholars think deeply instead of thinking clearly. To think clearly, you need to have common sense, and to think deeply can be completely insane.
9. This is a problem for many inventors: they lack patience. They lack the willpower to do something in their minds slowly, accurately and clearly so that they feel exactly how it will work. They want to immediately examine the first idea that comes to their mind, and as a result, spend a lot of money and a lot of good material, only to empirically determine that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes and it is better to make them before we start doing anything.
10. Our world is immersed in a vast ocean of energy, we fly endless space with unimaginable speed. Everything revolves around, everything moves – everything is energy. We have a difficult task – to find ways to extract that energy. Then, drawing it from that inexhaustible source, humanity will take giant steps forward.
11. The spread of civilization can be likened to fire: first it is a faint spark, then a flickering flame, and then a powerful flame endowed with speed and power.
12. How many people have called me a fantasy, mocking my ideas, our misguided myopic world. We will be judged by time.
13. Everyone should consider his body an invaluable gift from all those he loves most, a magnificent work of art. Indescribable beauty, a secret that lies in the idea of human existence, is so subtle that words, breathing, sight, even thought can hurt. The disorder that multiplies disease and death is not only self-destructive but also an incredibly amoral habit.
14. I cut my finger and it bleeds: that finger is part of me. I see the pain of friends, and that pain hurts me too: we are one with a friend. And looking at an injured enemy, even the one I would least regret in the entire Universe, I still feel sad. Doesn’t that prove that we are all just particles of one whole?
15. In constant solitude, the mind becomes sharper. To think and find does not require a large laboratory. Ideas are born in the absence of the influence of external conditions on the mind. The secret of invention is in solitude.
Ideas are born in solitude.
16. There is nothing that can attract human attention and deserves to be the subject of study more than nature. Understanding its tremendous mechanism, discovering its creative powers and knowing the laws that govern it is the greatest goal of human reason.
17. It is not a great evil if a student makes a mistake; but if great minds make mistakes, the world will pay dearly for their mistakes.
18. When faced with some exhausting task, I would work on it and would come back again and again until I finished it. So I practiced day after day, from morning till night. At first, this required a strong mental effort against inclinations and desires, but as the years went on, this confrontation weakened, and eventually my will and desire became one and the same. They are what they are today, and that is the secret of all my successes.
19. Intuition is something that is ahead of correct knowledge. Our brains, no doubt, have very sensitive nerve cells, which allow us to feel the truth, even when it is still inaccessible to logical conclusions or other mental effort.
20. I don’t make drawings, I don’t make models. In my head I create a drawing, according to it, I thinkfully assemble the device, test it and put it into operation. For 20 years, the results of thought tests and tests of this device in the workshop have always yielded the same results.
21. This is paradoxical, but the truth is, when they say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, because it is only through enlightenment that we become aware of our limitations.
22. When natural desire develops into craving, moving closer to the goal takes huge steps.
23. Our flaws and our virtues are not separable, as force and matter. If they separate, man no longer exists.
24. No society can exist and develop without strict discipline.
25. The brain does not keep records, it does not gather knowledge. Knowledge is something like an echo that breaks the silence to bring it to life.
Source: Lifedeeper.ru