The greatest geek who ever lived was born 160 years ago today. While he was alive, Tesla’s advancements were frequently and famously attributed to others. But history has shown us the magnitude of his work, a sentiment best expressed by Fiorello LaGuardia’s eulogy: “Tesla is not really dead. Only his poor wasted body has been stilled. The real, the important part of Tesla lives in his achievement which is great, almost beyond calculation, an integral part of our civilization, of our daily lives.” Thanks for everything, Nikola Tesla, and Happy Birthday!

1. ON GENDER EQUALITY:

“But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. A woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.” Tesla: Man Out of Time Cheney, Margaret Best Price: $1.05 Buy New $5.99 (as of 04:25 UTC - Details)

From a 1926 interview by John B. Kennedy, “When Woman Is Boss.”

2. ON BEING AMERICAN:

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“…the papers, which thirty years ago conferred upon me the honor of American citizenship, are always kept in a safe, while my orders, diplomas, degrees, gold medals and other distinctions are packed away in old trunks.”

From “My Inventions V – The Magnifying Transmitter,” 1919.

3. ON BEING SERBIAN:

“There is something within me that might be an illusion as it is often the 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 fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.”

From an address at the Belgrade train station, 1892.

4. ON UNIVERSAL PEACE: My Inventions: The Aut... Nikola Tesla Best Price: $1.95 Buy New $6.00 (as of 06:15 UTC - Details)

“We begin to think cosmically. Our sympathetic feelers reach out into the dim distance. The bacteria of the “Weltschmerz” are upon us. So far, however, universal harmony has been attained only in a single sphere of international relationship. That is the postal service. Its mechanism is working satisfactorily, but—how remote are we still from that scrupulous respect for the sanctity of the mailbag!”

From “The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace,” 1905.

5. ON HIS LEGACY:

“What the result of these investigations will be the future will tell; but whatever they may be, and to whatever this principle may lead, I shall be sufficiently recompensed if later it will be admitted that I have contributed a share, however small, to the advancement of science.”

From “The Tesla Alternate Current Motor,” 1888.

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