Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s, his reputation has experienced a comeback in popular culture. His work and reputed inventions are also at the center of many conspiracy theories and have also been used to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories and New Age occultism. In 1960, in honor of Tesla, the General Conference on Weights and Measures for the International System of Units dedicated the term "tesla" to the SI unit measure for magnetic field strength.
"When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole,
and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his
movement, we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt
to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable
types and characters constitute an entity, a unit? Though free to think
and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with
ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. I cut
myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me. I
see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one. And
now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the
lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves
me. Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?"
-From “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” 1900.
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