He was the epitome of indifferent deference; good and evil were concepts of a lower order to order of forces beyond the ken of ordinary folk, he imagined and made whole machines and concepts in spite of every insistence of the impossibility of their construction or existence.
He had a certain altruistic bent that fed on the fuel of pure discovery and made and lost a fortune without remorse.
None other like him have we seen nor shall we likely see again.
Tesla did seem to care about mankind more than he did about himself personally. He wasnt worried about his own wealth.
I am sorry that he did not take care of himself more.
As a boy, I thrilled to the tales of his enigmatic machines and the sheer allure of his better-known discoveries. His mind was alive with possibilities that others could only envision or to which they could merely hint in science fiction.