The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the...
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
"In crystal we have a pure evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and although in spite of everything we cannot understand the life of crystals - it is still a living being."
"I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination."
"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 towar…"
"... 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 educ…"
"I myself have made my own discoveries in the greatest solitude, and when I have been alone, undisturbed."
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 prediction on the future of humanity and eugenics.
Date: Approximate
PhilosophicalFound in 1 providers: gemini
1 source checked
Tesla predicts that by 2100, eugenics—deliberate control of human reproduction to breed supposedly superior traits—would be universally adopted. He argues natural selection once eliminated weaker hereditary lines, but human compassion through medicine and charity now allows those traits to persist. He frames this as a civilizational problem requiring scientific correction, reflecting a deeply flawed but once-mainstream belief that humanity should engineer its own biological future.
Tesla was a compulsive futurist, making sweeping predictions about electricity, wireless communication, and now civilization itself. A lifelong bachelor who chose celibacy, he wrote about human reproduction with clinical detachment. His faith in science as humanity's supreme guide extended into social engineering. This quote reveals the shadow side of his scientism—the same certainty that powered his electrical genius led him to endorse ideas now recognized as profoundly harmful.
Tesla wrote this around the 1930s, when eugenics was mainstream intellectual culture across America and Europe. Universities offered eugenics coursework, the American Eugenics Society hosted public exhibitions, and over thirty U.S. states had enacted forced sterilization laws. This predated Nazi Germany's atrocities, which ultimately collapsed the movement's credibility. What Tesla expressed was tragically unremarkable among educated Western thinkers of his generation—a chilling reminder of how 'scientific consensus' can embody profound moral failure.
AI-generated insights based on extensive research and information for context. Factual errors? Email [email protected].
Your cart is empty
