7 quotes that sum up the work of the genius who gave his name to the world’s best-known electric car manufacturer

Elon Musk, Ian Wright and JB Straubel, co-founders of Tesla, decided to pay homage to Croatian inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla when they started their company. Today, it is a badge they wear with pride. On July 10, it was 168 years since he was born (1856).

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His most important work is the invention of the alternating current motor, which played a fundamental role in the Second Industrial Revolution. Tesla’s patents and theories laid the foundation for modern alternating current power systems. In addition to his work in electromagnetism and electromechanics, Tesla’s research contributed to the development of robotics, remote control, radar, computing, ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. His thoughts can be summarized by these seven quotes.

Seven quotes from a genius who has become the symbol of electric mobility

1. “Our virtues and our faults are inseparable, like force and matter. When they are separated, man no longer exists.”
2. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
3. “I don’t care if they stole my idea… What I care about is that they don’t have anything of their own.
4. “Today’s scientists think more deeply than clearly. You have to be sane to think clearly, but you can think deeply and be completely crazy.”
5. “I don’t think you can name many great inventions that were made by married men.
6. “I am constantly overcome by the feeling of having been the first to hear the greeting from one planet to another.
7. “If your hatred were converted into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”

A life in the service of science

After demonstrating wireless communication by radio waves in 1894 and winning the “war of currents” against Edison, who promoted direct current, Tesla was widely recognized as one of America’s greatest electrical engineers.

At the time, his fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist, but his eccentric personality and astonishing claims about possible scientific and technological innovations earned him recognition as a mad scientist. Little concerned about his finances, he would be died impoverished at the age of 86.