Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Quotes

• Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

• Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

• 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.

• 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.