Edwin Howard Armstrong Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.”
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong

Source : "Electronics" by P. Arun, (p. 310), 2005.

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“Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.”
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong

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“Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.”
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong

Source : "Edwin Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis, www.columbia.edu. 2002.

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“The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.”
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong

Source : The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York, www.teslasociety.com.

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“I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”
-- Edwin Howard Armstrong

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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”

“In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.”

“To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect,”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books

“Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age”

“Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.”