Dennis Gabor

(1900–1979) Physicist

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Dennis Gabor was a physicist, best known for Inventing the future.

Quick Facts About Dennis Gabor

Born: June 5, 1900
Died: February 9, 1979
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Inventing the future

About Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dennis Gabor

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

Dennis Gabor

Heart

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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…

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Ability

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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…

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Important

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“I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S.…

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Arnold-toynbee

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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…

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Documents

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

Dennis Gabor

Time

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“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is…

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Aldous-huxley

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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…

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Appreciate

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

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Nature

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