Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Gabor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained British citizenship in 1934, and spent most of his life in England.

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 the technology of yesterday.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. — © Dennis Gabor
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
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.
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.
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.
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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