Antique Quotes That Remind Us About Our Lack of Ability to Predict the Future

November 19th, 2010 - Posted in Energy | Tags: , , | No Comments » .

“The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.”
—Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1873

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
—Lord  Kelvin, mathematician and physicist, 1895

“It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers.”
—American Railroad Congress, 1913

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
—H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927

“There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth’s gravity.”
—Forest Ray Moulton, astronomer, 1932

“There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
—Albert Einstein, 1932

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
—Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946

“The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most.”
—IBM to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
—Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977

“Let’s change this way of impossible thinking to thinking with possibility.” ~ Sheevaun Moran, Voice of Energetic Solutions, 2010

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