Lee De Forest quotes
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“[Man will never reach the Moon] regardless of all future scientific advances.”
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“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”
-- Lee De ForestSource : 1926 In the NewYork Times.
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“I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [...] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.”
-- Lee De ForestSource : "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.
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“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth—all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.”
-- Lee De ForestSource : "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.
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“I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!”
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“I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.”
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“You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.”
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“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”
-- Lee De ForestSource : "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.
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“Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.”
-- Lee De Forest
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.”
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