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To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth...

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn’t sweat as much.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.

It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain.

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering – only expensive – blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man’s mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world...

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else’s efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether.

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

Imagination Quotes

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Civilization Quotes

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Book Quotes

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