The inability to work with others, the inability to share his plans, was the
greatest handicap from which Tesla suffered. It completely isolated him from therest of the intellectual structure of his time and caused the world to lose a vastamount of creative thought which he was unable to translate into completeinventions. It is a duty of a master to train pupils who will carry on after him—but Tesla refused to accept this responsibility. Had Tesla, in his most activeperiod, associated with him a half-dozen brilliant young scientists, they wouldhave been in a position to link him with the engineering and scientific worldsfrom which, despite his eminence and his outstanding accomplishments, he wasto a great extent isolated because of his unusual personal characteristics. Hisfame was so secure that the success of his assistants could not have detractedfrom it; but the master would have shone more brightly in the brilliantaccomplishments of his pupils. He might well have attracted some practicalyoung men who could have aided him by assuming the burden of makingpractical application of some of the minor but important inventions from whichhe could have earned sufficient profit to pay the cost of maintaining hislaboratories. Many scores of important inventions have undoubtedly been lost tothe world because of Tesla’s intellectual hermit characteristics. Undoubtedly, heindirectly inspired many young men to become inventors.
Nikola Tesla
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