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By Nikola Tesla
The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time.
- Source
- My Inventions, No. 1 of a Series, February 1919 · p. 744
- Read at
- The Electrical Experimenter, February 1919 (Internet Archive scan of the original issue)
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From the first part of Tesla's autobiographical series "My Inventions" in The Electrical Experimenter, February 1919. Tesla explains that he builds and tests his inventions in his mind before making any apparatus, and says that building a device from a crude idea wastes effort. The source spells it "practise".