Dennis Gabor Quotes

• The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

  Dennis Gabor

  Space

  "Inventing the Future". Book by Dennis Gabor, 1963.

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• Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

  Dennis Gabor

  Men, Earth Day, Conservation

  1964 Inventing the Future.

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• Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

  Dennis Gabor

  Heart, Poetry, Poetic

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• The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

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  Science, Technology, Yesterday

  1970 Innovations.

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• The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

  Dennis Gabor

  Men, Made, Ability

  "Inventing the Future". Book by Dennis Gabor, p. 161, 1963.

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• Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

  Dennis Gabor

  Wire, Telephones, Principles

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• Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

  Dennis Gabor

  Appreciate, Magic, Kind

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