John R. Pierce famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music.
-- John R. Pierce

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Nature abhors the vacuum tube.
-- John R. Pierce

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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

John R. Pierce famous quotes

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