Nikola Tesla Quotes

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.

We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

… only today, or yesterday at the earliest, after the long millenniums of man's life on this planet, has he acquired the technical skill, the command over the forces of nature, the physical power to produce enough and more for all his children upon the face of the earth.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

We are going to see with our own eyes electricity made so cheap that it would become a standard article for use, not only for manufacturing but for every home…. I know that this empty desert country is going to be filled with men, women and children, making an honest livelihood…

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

By going to Mars one day, we will make things better for us here on Earth.

I believe history of humankind has always faced challenges. I don't think that any other period in history was less problematic then the one in which we live.

Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.

We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe.