“instinct transcends knowledge”

from My Inventions

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“Most people are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause.”

from My Inventions

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“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”

from My Inventions

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“I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”

from My Inventions

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“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

from My Inventions

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“War cannot be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed… Only the annihilation of distance in every respect will insure the permanency of friendly relations.”

from My Inventions

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“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

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“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

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“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.”

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“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.”

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“It is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers”

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“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

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“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... the elimination of egoism and pride which always plunges the world into primeval barbarism and strife”

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“We must eliminate the fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride”

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“It’s not the love you make. It's the love you give.”

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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

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“Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and the merging of races”

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“the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways”

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“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

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“Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.”

from The Problem of Increasing Human Energy​

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