Lee De Forest Quotes

• Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Science, Moon, Technology

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• While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

  Lee De Forest

  May, Television, Predictions

  1926 In the NewYork Times.

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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 Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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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.

  Lee De Forest

  Children, Media, My Children

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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!

  Lee De Forest

  Moon, Atmosphere, Mars

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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 Forest

  Children, Father, Eye

  "The Man Who Made Radio Talk". Popular Science Monthly, May 1929.

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• I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Moon, Men, Voyages

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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 Forest

  Communication, Kitchen, Fields

  "Dawn of the Electronic Age" by Lee De Forest, blog.modernmechanix.com. January 1952.

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