There's a great applicable quote from Nikola Tesla here: “If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee t

There's a great applicable quote from Nikola Tesla here: “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.”