"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
Tesla was a Serbian engineer and inventor who is often described as the most
important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face
of Earth". He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity
and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla’s patents and theoretical
work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems,
including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he
helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Contemporary biographers of Tesla
have regarded him as "The Father of Physics", "The man who invented the twentieth
century" and "the patron saint of modern electricity." Aside from his work on
electromagnetism and electromechanical engineering, Tesla has contributed in varying
degrees to the establishment of robotics, remote control, radar and computer science,
and to the expansion of ballistics, nuclear physics, and theoretical physics. In 1943, the
Supreme Court of the United States credited him as being the inventor of the radio.
Many of his achievements have been used, with some controversy, to support various
pseudosciences, UFO theories, and early New Age occultism.