Quote#Politics & Power
Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic!…
Quote byNikola Tesla · 1856–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency" (February 1892).
English (original)
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.
— Nikola Tesla
More from Nikola Tesla
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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. If those hopes would become …
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of …
Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin.
Ere long intelligence—transmitted without wires—will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb …
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.