Nikola Tesla Quotes

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

The pen is not mightier than the sword; and mightier than either, and more necessary, is the hoe.

Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is.

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy…. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.

Conservation’s grand challenge is to save nature in a world that will soon have 9 billion hungry, thirsty, energy-using people.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

We associate stress with action, but how can you take action without stress? You take the right actions with a different energy. Yes, that might affect the speed at which you work or how much you get done in one day, but you'll probably get things done more efficiently.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Energy is eternal delight.

To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-)

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.