As long as there are different nationalities, there will be patriotism. That feeling has to be rooted out from our hearts before the permanent peace is established. It should be replaced by love towards nature and scientific ideal. Science and inventions are strong forces which will lead to its termination.
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Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer whose alternating-current designs powered the modern electrical grid; died poor and largely forgotten. Closely associated with George Westinghouse (his AC-power business partner) and Mihajlo Pupin (fellow Serbian-American physicist at Columbia). For an intellectual contrast, see Thomas Edison, American inventor and direct-current advocate — Edison's direct-current power-distribution scheme was displaced by Tesla-Westinghouse AC in the 1890s 'War of Currents'. Edison ran a public-relations campaign electrocuting animals to discredit AC — the most famous engineering-ethics rivalry in American history. Tesla's AC won and powers nearly every electrical grid on Earth.
Controversial and profound view on achieving universal peace by transcending nationalism.
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Patriotism and national identity breed inevitable conflict — as long as people define themselves by nationality, war follows. Lasting peace requires replacing that tribal loyalty with something universal: reverence for nature and scientific knowledge. Tesla believed science, being objective and borderless, could unite humanity under a shared identity, making national divisions obsolete. The advancement of invention itself would erode the boundaries that separate peoples into competing groups.
Tesla, born in Serbian-majority Austria-Hungary and immigrating to America, built his career across national borders. He designed his AC electrical system and envisioned Wardenclyffe's wireless power as resources for all humanity equally. A lifelong loner unburdened by familial or national ties, he found his deepest connections to nature — obsessively studying pigeons, lightning, and electromagnetic phenomena. Science was his true homeland; he saw national identity as an obstacle to human potential.
Tesla's adult life coincided with Europe's most explosive era of nationalism. The late 1800s saw intensifying imperial rivalry and Social Darwinism normalize national competition as natural law. World War I — fueled by patriotic fever — killed 20 million people using the very industrial technology Tesla helped create. The League of Nations afterward proved insufficient. Against this backdrop, Tesla's argument that science must replace patriotism was urgent: he had watched nationalism weaponize invention itself.
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