Nikola Tesla Quotes

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

One can not impede scientific progress.

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Unprecedented opportunities for new scientific experience ...

Modern civilization depends on science …

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

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All of this technology wasn't available to Einstein. I bet he would've invented LIGO.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.