Quotes by Tesla, Nikola

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a n >>

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. >>

Quotations about Imagination

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. >>

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all pl >>

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. >>

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Tesla, Nikola