A Structure Which Has No Relation to Reality

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

Sources
Modern Mechanix and Inventions
Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World
Magazine
Modern Mechanix and Inventions (July 1934)

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🧩 Topics

Abductive ReasoningAbstractionEdificeMathematicsModelRealityReificationSimulationTheory

🎨 Themes

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