Aeroplanes Quote by Lord Kelvin Download Open image “Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.” — Lord Kelvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aeroplanes Hoaxes Impossible Radio Rays Technology Time
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.. — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
“I think irradiating pilots with WiFi radio frequency (RF) radiation is really going to hit about five years from now as 'Delayed Radiation Complications'… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
So much time and attention has been spent on streaming that we've really gotten away from some of the things that we could have,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
I hope to transform the way people think about health and information. Radio is a terrific medium to learn facts and figures easily and… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit;… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Hey there's not a cloud in the sky It's as blue as your goodbye And I thought that it would rain On a day… — Wendy Matthews Copy Share Image
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science.… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image