Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hudson Maxim

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Last updated on April 17, 2025.

Hudson Maxim, was a U.S. inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder, Thomas Edison referred to him as "the most versatile man in America". He was the brother of Hiram Maxim, inventor of the Maxim gun and uncle of Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Silencer.

Inventor | February 3, 1853 - May 6, 1927

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The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.

Hudson Maxim

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

Hudson Maxim

If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.

Hudson Maxim

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hudson Maxim

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