Editing Nikola Tesla (section)

=== On society ===
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Tesla is widely considered by his biographers to have been a [[Humanism|humanist]] in philosophical outlook.{{sfn|Jonnes|2004|p=154}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Innovation: The Lessons of Nikola Tesla |year=2008 |publisher=Blue Eagle |isbn=978-987-651-009-7 |page=43 |first1=Peter |last1=Belohlavek |first2=John W |last2=Wagner |quote=This was Tesla: a scientist, philosopher, humanist, and ethical man of the world in the truest sense.}}</ref> This did not preclude Tesla, like many of his era, from becoming a proponent of an imposed [[selective breeding]] version of [[eugenics]].

Tesla expressed the belief that human "pity" had come to interfere with the natural "ruthless workings of nature". Though his argumentation did not depend on a concept of a "master race" or the inherent superiority of one person over another, he advocated for eugenics. In a 1937 interview he stated:

{{blockquote|...&nbsp;man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct&nbsp;... The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |title=A Machine to End War |date=February 1937 |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |access-date=23 November 2010 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120214740/https://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

In 1926, Tesla commented on the ills of the social subservience of women and the struggle of women toward [[gender equality]], and indicated that humanity's future would be run by "[[Queen bee (sociology)|Queen Bees]]". He believed that women would become the dominant sex in the future.<ref>Kennedy, John B., "[http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm When woman is boss] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606023652/http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm |date=6 June 2011 }}, An interview with Nikola Tesla." [[Collier's Weekly|Colliers]], 30 January 1926.</ref>

Tesla made predictions about the relevant issues of a post-World War I environment in a printed article entitled "Science and Discovery are the great Forces which will lead to the Consummation of the War" (20 December 1914).<ref>{{cite web |last=Tesla |first=Nikola |title=Science and Discovery are the great Forces which will lead to the Consummation of the War |url=http://www.rastko.rs/rastko/delo/10832 |publisher=Rastko |access-date=17 July 2012 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402053438/http://www.rastko.rs/rastko/delo/10832 |url-status=live }}</ref> Tesla believed that the [[League of Nations]] was not a remedy for the times and issues.<ref name="tesla1" />{{better source needed|date=January 2022}}