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To: wallcrawlr
Asked how he happened to focus on it, he said, “I just had an inkling it might work.’’

"Intuition trancends intellect" --- Nikola Tesla.

4 posted on 02/12/2004 5:01:03 PM PST by templar
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To: templar
"Intuition trancends intellect" --- Nikola Tesla.

"Hey Tesla, what happened to all that money I invested with you?" --- J.P. Morgan

16 posted on 02/12/2004 5:26:02 PM PST by Moonman62
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To: templar
"Intuition trancends intellect" --- Nikola Tesla.

IIRC, when Tesla was a student, he proposed to build an A/C motor.
The teacher spent something like the whole next day of lectures "proving"
that such a thing could never work.

(I'm not an electrical engineer...I hope I recalled the story correctly)
71 posted on 02/12/2004 9:36:50 PM PST by VOA
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