Nikola Tesla Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Of all things I liked books best.

  Nikola Tesla

  Book, All Things

  "My Inventions" by Nikola Tesla, (Ch. 1), 1919.

• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sorry, Book, Knowledge

• Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

  Nikola Tesla

  Father, Reading, Book

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.8, Lulu.com

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