Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor CBE, FRSwas a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 June 1900
Dennis Gabor quotes about
appreciate magic kind
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.
technology yesterday evil
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.
men made ability
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.
men earth-day conservation
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
heart poetry great-poet
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.
wire telephones principles
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.