Alfred Smee quotes
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“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”
-- Alfred SmeeSource : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128
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“To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.”
-- Alfred SmeeSource : Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.300
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“Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.”
-- Alfred SmeeSource : Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) (1851). “Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, or the art of working in metals by the galvanic fluid”, p.8
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“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.”
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“Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.”
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.