8 quotes Nikola Tesla

One of the greatest engineers was born 157 years ago, July 10, 1856. During the life of the glory of his inventions often took out another, but history puts everything in its place. Perhaps this is best expressed in his eulogy scientist American politician Fiorello La Guardia, the former mayor of New York at the time of death Tesla "Tesla is not really dead. Only his poor body acquired immobility. This, the most important part of Tesla lives in his achievement, which is truly great, almost to quantify and have become an integral part of our civilization, of our everyday life. "On the occasion of the day birth Nikola Tesla we have compiled a list of his statements about the different aspects of life.

1. About technologies of the future

Soon it will be possible to send messages without wires all over the world, which is so simple that everyone can carry their own equipment for this and manage it.

2. About patience and planning

This is a problem for many inventors: they do not have the patience. They do not have enough willpower to work out something slow, loud and clear in his mind, so that they have experienced exactly how this will work. They want to immediately experience the first comes to mind the idea, and as a result they spend a lot of money and a lot of good stuff, only to empirically establish that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to perform them before you start to do something.

3. About his legacy

What will be the result of my research, only time will tell. But no matter what it was, and what he had not led, I'll be more than satisfied if the next generation will recognize that I am made his share is definitely small, the development of science.

4. Of individualism and humanity

Speaking of the person we also represent humanity as a whole, and applying scientific methods to the individual should take into account the physical fact. But can anyone now doubt that all these millions of individual, endless types and characters constitute a whole?

Despite the freedom of will and action, we are held together, like stars in the firmament are connected by unbreakable ties. These bonds are invisible, but we can feel them. I cut my finger and it bleeds: the finger - a part of me. I see the pain of others, and this pain hurts me too: my friend and I are one. And watching the defeated enemy, even one who I would regret the least in the whole universe, I still feel grief. Does not this prove that we are only a fraction of a whole?

5. About wastefulness

We build to destroy. Most of our work and wasted resources. Our march forward noted the devastation. Everywhere a terrible waste of time, effort and lives. Bleak, but truthful picture.

6. on cleanliness

Everyone should consider his body is a priceless gift from those whom he loves above all, a magnificent work of art. Indescribable beauty, the mystery that lies in the conception of the human being is so thin that even a word, breath, mind, even the thought can damage it. Untidiness, which multiplies the disease and death, not just self-destruct, but incredibly immoral habit.

7. Those who appropriated his invention

Let the future tell the truth and will assess each according to his works and achievements. The present is theirs; future, for which I worked really - me.

8. On the mysteries of life

Life is and always will be an equation that can not be resolved, though contains several well-known factors.