Great Tesla Quotes
Nikola Tesla was a brilliant electrical genius and inventor who provided us the alternating current system has powered our modern world... till now at least.
Yet he went so much farther than that and is little understood despite his renewed popularity.
Tesla invented a global power transmission system utilizing a new type of impulse current he discovered. The invention was fully tested but never implemented commercially.
These quotes give us an idea of what he was thinking of gifting to the world.
Tesla said:
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.”
“That electrical energy can be economically transmitted without wires to any terrestrial distance … [it] is practicable to distribute power from a central plant in unlimited amounts, with a loss not exceeding a small fraction of one per cent, in the transmission, even to the greatest distance, twelve thousand miles — to the opposite end of the globe.”
“I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signalling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers. “
“Perhaps the most wonderful feature is that the energy travels chiefly along an orthodromic line, that is, the shortest distance between two points at the surface of the globe, and reaches the receiver without the slightest dispersion, so that an incomparably greater amount is collected than is possible by radiations.”
“When the great truth accidentally revealed and experimentally confirmed is fully recognized, that this planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball and that by this fact many possibilities, each baffling imagination and of incalculable consequence, are rendered absolutely sure of accomplishment; when the first plant is inaugurated and it is shown that a telegraphic message, almost as secret and non-interferable as a thought, can be transmitted to any terrestrial distance, the sound of the human voice, with all its intonations and inflections, faithfully and instantly reproduced at any other point of the globe, the energy of a waterfall made available for supplying light, heat or motive power, anywhere — on sea, or land, or high in the air — humanity will be like an ant heap stirred up with a stick: See the excitement coming!”
"We are whirling through endless space with inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides.”
“The sun’s rays falling upon the earth’s surface represent a quantity of energy so enormous that but a small part of it could meet all our demands… The energy of light rays, constituting about 10% of the total radiation, might be captured by a cold and highly efficient process in photo-electric cells which may become, on this account, of practical importance in the future.”
The future is in our hands and our minds!
Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed the perspectives :)
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Am very fond of Tesla and want to truly Thank You for compiling these quotes...
Your Post gives me much to consider over the coming days & weeks, especially because they coincide with many similar ideas I've contemplated over the years... and I'm certainly not nearly as gifted as Tesla, but have learned a few ways to receive ideas/concepts/information that does not follow traditional methodology of research or invention.
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Thanks Again !! Have a Great Week !!
Definitely will have more Tesla info posts. Just wanted to get those quotes out... and working to discipline myself to post quality materials regularly, even if in short burst mode.
What I see as important in Tesla's work is his faster than light non-EM currents, fits with the archetypal structure of Goethe's prismatic approach, in respect to green and magenta as a secondary polarity.
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he deserves it, he is a man with a great deal of knowledge to share!
great believer in Tesla, it suck he was attacked and shut down or we could be in an entirely different world, look forward to seeing all of your Tesla stuff, Im always looking up his stuff, have the movie about him also, even though it doesnt really do him justice
Tesla noted that those who followed Einstein and the related types of physicists into their realm would never be able to understand his work. I'll be doing my best to explain this from my perspective, in relation to Goethe's works, as it was quoting him that Tesla "saw" in his imagination the rotating AC field.
Well done. I made an video of one of the quotes you used. https://steemit.com/science/@subductive/the-spirit-of-nikola-tesla-whirling-delight