Nikola Tesla Quotes

I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

Nikola Tesla

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• When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • America
  • Reality
  • Government

• I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Romantic

• I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Loved
  • Gym

• When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Me
  • Support
  • More

• I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Feel
  • I Can
  • I Feel

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Think

• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • True
  • Best
  • Achievement

• The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Good
  • Year
  • Impact

• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
  • Political
  • Faith

• There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Question
  • See

• Necessity is the mother of all invention.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mother
  • Invention
  • Necessity

• I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • See
  • Afraid
  • Explain

• If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

  

  Aristotle
  • Prove
  • Exist
  • Cause

• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft
  • Water
  • Experiment
  • Sensitive

• I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Prove
  • Theory
  • Experiment