Scott,
A comment on your choice of quotation. While Nikola Tesla was a brilliant inventor and engineer, he was also somewhat erratic. The quote you’ve chosen from 1934 “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” is completely opposite from his 1931 quote criticizing Edison … "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
Nikola Tesla - New York Times (19 October 1931)
Walt