Frases de Nikola Tesla

“De todas las cosas, me gustaron más los libros.”

“El futuro mostrará los resultados y juzgará a cada uno de acuerdo a sus logros.”

“No creo que haya alguna emoción más intensa para un inventor que ver alguna de sus creaciones funcionando. Esa emoción hace que uno se olvide de comer, de dormir, de todo.”

“Todo mi dinero lo he invertido en experimentos para realizar nuevos descubrimientos que permitan a la humanidad vivir un poco mejor.”

“Se me considera uno de los trabajadores más dedicados y si el pensamiento es un equivalente de la tarea quizá lo soy, pues a él he consagrado casi todas mis horas de vigilia. Pero si el trabajo se interpreta como un rendimiento determinado durante un tiempo específico de acuerdo con una regla rígida, entonces puede que yo haya sido el peor de los haraganes.”

“El desarrollo del hombre depende fundamentalmente de la invención. Es el producto más importante de su cerebro creativo. Su objetivo final es el dominio completo de la mente sobre el mundo material y el aprovechamiento de las fuerzas de la naturaleza a favor de las necesidades humanas.”

“Nuestros sentidos nos permiten percibir sólo una pequeña porción del mundo exterior.”

“La mayoría de las personas están tan absortas en la contemplación del mundo exterior que son totalmente ajenas a lo que está pasando dentro de sí mismas.”

“Si tu odio pudiera convertirse en electricidad, iluminaría todo el mundo.”

“La corriente alterna, especialmente de alta frecuencia, pasa con sorprendente libertad incluso a través de gases ligeramente enrarecidos.”

“Durante un tiempo, titubeé, impresionado por la autoridad del profesor, pero pronto me convencí de que yo tenía razón y asumí la tarea con todo el ardor y la confianza infinita de la juventud.”

“El individuo es efímero, las razas y las naciones vienen y mueren, pero el hombre permanece.”

“[…] La distancia, que es el impedimento principal del progreso de la humanidad, será completamente superada, en palabra y acción. La humanidad estará unida, las guerras serán imposibles, y la paz reinará en todo el planeta.”

“El presente es vuestro, pero el futuro es mío.”

“La tierra es un conductor de resonancia acústica.”

“Si el genio de la invención fuera mañana a revelar el secreto de la inmortalidad, la eterna belleza y la juventud, por el cual toda la humanidad sufre, los mismos inexorables agentes que previenen a una masa de cambiar repentinamente su velocidad, igualmente resistirían la fuerza de este nuevo conocimiento hasta que el tiempo gradualmente modificara el pensamiento humano.”

“Tenía una verdadera obsesión por terminar cualquier cosa que hubiera comenzado, lo que a menudo me ponía en dificultades. En una ocasión, había empezado a leer las obras de Voltaire, cuando averigüé, para mi desmayo, que eran casi cien volúmenes de letra diminuta, que aquel monstruo había escrito mientras bebía setenta y dos tazas de café negro al día. Había que hacerlo, pero cuando aparté de mí el último libro, me alegré mucho y dije:¡Nunca más!”

“Somos autómatas controlados totalmente por las fuerzas del medio, zarandeados como corchos en la superficie del agua, pero confundimos el resultado de los impulsos del exterior con el libre albedrío.”

“A lo largo de espacio hay energía, y es una mera cuestión de tiempo hasta que los hombres tengan éxito en sus mecanismos vinculados al aprovechamiento de esa energía.”

“Como un hijo de mi patria creo que es mi deber ayudar a la ciudad de Zagreb en todos los aspectos con mi asesoramiento y trabajo.”

“El científico no tiene por objeto un resultado inmediato. Él no espera que sus ideas avanzadas sean fácilmente aceptadas. Su deber es sentar las bases para aquellos que están por venir, y señalar el camino.”

“La comprensión mutua sería enormemente facilitada por el uso de una lengua universal.”

“La idea vino como un flash de rayos y en un instante la verdad se reveló.”

“Nuestros primeros esfuerzos son puramente instintivos, de una imaginación vívida e indisciplinada.”

“Si tuviera la suerte de alcanzar alguno de mis ideales sería en nombre de toda la humanidad.”

“El instinto es algo que trasciende el conocimiento.”

“Establecer relaciones pacíficas permanentes entre las naciones sería la manera más efectiva de reducir la fuerza que retarda a la masa humana, así como la mejor solución a este gran problema de los humanos.”

“El desarrollo progresivo del hombre depende vitalmente de la invención; es el producto más importante de su cerebro creativo.”

“Las maravillas del ayer son los sucesos corrientes de hoy.”

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

“My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”

“Everyone should consider his
body as a priceless gift from
one whom he loves above all, a
marvelous work of art, of
indescribable beauty, and
mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that
a word, a breath, a look, nay, a
thought may injure it.”

“Miss! Never trust a Jew!”

“We are just waves in time and space, changing continuously, and the illusion of individuality is produced through the concatenation of the rapidly succeeding phases of existence. What we define as likeness is merely the result of the symmetrical arrangement of molecules which compose our body.”

“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.”

“This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization.”

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.”

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“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.”

“Inventors don't have time for married life.”

“Ere long intelligence—transmitted without wires—will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.”

“I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it.”

“What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”

“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”

“Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.”

“To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man's grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.”

“What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife… Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment…”

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.”

“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.”

“One day I went alone to the river to enjoy myself as usual. When I was a short distance from the masonry, however, I was horrified to observe that the water had risen and was carrying me along swiftly.… The pressure against my chest was great and I was barely able to keep my head above the surface.… Slowly and gradually I became exhausted and unable to withstand the strain longer. Just as I was about to let go, to be dashed against the rocks below, I saw in a flash of light a familiar diagram illustrating the hydraulic principle that the pressure of a fluid in motion is proportionate to the area exposed and automatically I turned on my left side. As if by magic, the pressure was reduced.”