Phrases

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

2. I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own.

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

4. My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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 have really worked, is mine.

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

12. 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.

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

14. Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

15. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

16. Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

17. The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

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

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

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

21. All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

22. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

23. There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact.

24. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

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

26. Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

27. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

28. A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

29. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind.

30. When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

34. The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

35. It is paradoxical, yet true, to say that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations.

36. Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

37. Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

38. The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

39. The human race will have to convert itself to a race of Cyclops to survive.

40. 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.

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

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

43. Of all things, I liked books best.

44. My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

45. 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.

46. If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.

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

48. The influences that shape our destiny are very subtle.

49. As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

50. An inventor’s endeavor is essentially life-saving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new means of communication, his is a work which continues well beyond his own time.

51. It is not in the nature of man to accept anything that does not conform to his preconceived ideas or prejudices.

52. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.

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

54. The future will judge the past.

55. It seems that I have always been ahead of my time.

56. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

57. Nations will cease to exist, but humanity will remain.

58. Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

59. The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely, it is quickly adopted; if not, it is doomed to failure.

60. The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

62. There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.

63. Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

64. 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.

65. The last 29 days of the month are the hardest.

66. Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

67. As soon as it was completed and the triumph was a matter of history, I collapsed. Everything was black. The next thing I knew, I was recuperating in a hospital.

68. But the moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle.

69. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

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

71. 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.

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

73. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

74. I have always been ahead of my time and the proof of this is that people are beginning to understand me now.

75. Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

76. The future is mine.

77. Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain.

78. I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, touch it, and think it. Therefore, I can see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, touch it, and think it. That is why I am able to understand it.

79. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

80. It’s not the love you make. It’s the love you give.

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

82. I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

83. I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian homeland.

84. The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is, will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race.

85. 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.

86. Man’s greatest achievement? Perhaps not, but can you think of anything else that all men agree to have been good?

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

88. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatical devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.

89. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern life hazardous in many ways.

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

91. Normally, we are inclined to be so scientific that we bypass the realm of the superphysical. Psychics and superpsychics are phrased as “psychology” nowadays and in all such phenomena, our attention is forcibly centered on the physical aspect alone.

92. Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

93. 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.

94. When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement, we must accept this as a physical fact.

95. But among all these many pathways, there is one path that, by far, is the most important.

96. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

97. Inventors don’t have time for married life.

98. The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.

99. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

100. If we want to avert an impending disaster, we must make haste to reform the sexual education and customs of the human race.