Nikola Tesla cytaty

strona 5

„Człowiek nie jest w Nieskończoności jedyną istotą obdarzoną rozumem.”

„Energia elektryczna jest wszechobecna w nieograniczonych ilościach i może zasilać maszynerię świata bez potrzeby węgla, gazu czy innych paliw.”

„Niech przyszłość powie prawdę i oceni każdego według jego pracy i osiągnięć. Teraźniejszość należy do nich, a przyszłość, na którą naprawdę pracowałem, do mnie.”

„Dzisiejsi naukowcy myślą głęboko, a nie jasno. Aby myśleć jasno, trzeba być mądrym , myśleć głęboko potrafią nawet obłąkani .”

„Trzeba być mądrym, aby myśleć jasno, ale można głęboko myśleć i być całkiem szalonym.”

„Ujarzmiłem promienie kosmiczne i sprawiłem, by służyły jako napęd (…). Ciężko pracowałem nad tym przez ponad 25 lat, a dziś mogę stwierdzić, że się udało.”

„Musimy nauczyć się uzyskiwać potrzebną nam energię bez zużywania surowców.”

„Nim miną pokolenia, maszyny zaopatrywane będą w moc, którą da się uzyskać z dowolnego miejsca wszechświata… Czy będzie to energia statyczna, czy kinetyczna? Jeśli statyczna, na próżno żywimy nadzieję. Jeśli kinetyczna – a wiemy z pewnością, że właśnie taka – kwestią czasu pozostaje, by człowiek podłączył urządzenia do koła zamachowego przyrody.”

“It has been argued that the perfection of guns of great destructive power will stop warfare. So I myself thought for a long time, but now I believe this to be a profound mistake. Such developments will greatly modify, but not arrest it. On the contrary, I think that every new arm that is invented, every new departure that is made in this direction, merely invites new talent and skill, engages new effort, offers new incentive, and so only gives a fresh impetus to further development. Think of the discovery of gun-powder. Can we conceive of any more radical departure than was effected by this innovation? Let us imagine ourselves living in that period: would we not have thought then that warfare was at an end, when the armor of the knight became an object of ridicule, when bodily strength and skill, meaning so much before, became of comparatively little value? Yet gunpowder did not stop warfare: quite the opposite it acted as a most powerful incentive.”

“For every person who perishes from the effects of a stimulant, at least a thousand die from the consequences of drinking impure water. This precious fluid, which daily infuses new life into us, is likewise the chief vehicle through which disease and death enter our bodies. The germs of destruction it conveys are enemies all the more terrible as they perform their fatal work unperceived. They seal our doom while we live and enjoy. The majority of people are so ignorant or careless in drinking water, and the consequences of this are so disastrous, that a philanthropist can scarcely use his efforts better than by endeavoring to enlighten those who are thus injuring themselves. By systematic purification and sterilization of the drinking water the human mass would be very considerably increased. It should be made a rigid rule which might be enforced by law to boil or to sterilize otherwise the drinking water in every household and public place. The mere filtering does not afford sufficient security against infection. All ice for internal uses should be artificially prepared from water thoroughly sterilized. The importance of eliminating germs of disease from the city water is generally recognized, but little is being done to improve the existing conditions, as no satisfactory method of sterilizing great quantities of water has yet been brought forward. By improved electrical appliances we are now enabled to produce ozone cheaply and in large amounts, and this ideal disinfectant seems to offer a happy solution of the important question.”

“One afternoon, which is ever present in my recollection, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the city park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe's Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of a glorious passage:
Sie rückt und weicht, der Tag ist überlebt,
Dort eilt sie hin und fördert neues Leben.
O! daß kein Flügel mich vom Boden hebt,
Ihr nach und immer nach zu streben!
Ein schöner Traum, indessen sie entweicht.
Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln wird so leicht
Kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen![The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.
(tr. Bayard Taylor)
As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in my address before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and my companion understood them perfectly. The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal and stone, so much so that I told him, "See my motor here; watch me reverse it."”

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”