Ocupation: Inventor
Life: July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943
Birthday: July 10
Death: January 7
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. [...] 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.
source: "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.
topic: Race, Civilization, Parent, Sterilization, Mating, Progeny