Lee De Forest quotes:
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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.
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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
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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.
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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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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.
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[Man will never reach the Moon] regardless of all future scientific advances.
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Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
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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.