Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Interview 'A Visit to Nikola Tesla', Politika (1927)
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Nikola Tesla quotes
1856-1943 ยท Scientists and inventors
Serbian American inventor who developed alternating current electrical systems.
5 quotes, 5 traced to where Tesla said or wrote them.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
'The Problem of Increasing Human Energy', Century Magazine (1900)
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
'An Inventor's Seasoned Ideas', The New York Times (1934)
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.
Modern Mechanics and Inventions (1934)
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it.
Interview 'A Visit to Nikola Tesla', Politika (1927)