Philo Farnsworth quotes

Philo Farnsworth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.”
-- Philo Farnsworth

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“Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.”
-- Philo Farnsworth

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“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”
“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.”
“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”
“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”
“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”
“My parents just tell me, â€˜If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.â€™”
“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara”

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