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Quotes by Inventor
"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music."
33
"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
33
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
33
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
32
"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth."
32
"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay."
Will,
31
"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."
31
"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."
30
"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
29
"Public influence is the real government of the world."
29
"I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway."
29
"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."
29
"I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author."
28
"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."
27
"We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by."
27
"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity."
27
"People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it."
27
"Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes."
26
"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."
26
"Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously."
26
"The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on."
25
"I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry."
24
"Evolution is baseless and quite incredible."
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