Dennis Gabor quotes

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist and electrical engineer, most famous for inventing holography. His groundbreaking work paved the way for modern 3D imaging and data storage technologies. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and made lasting contributions to science. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. (Dennis Gabor)
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. View quote
Dennis Gabor
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. View quote
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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. View quote
Dennis Gabor
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. View quote
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I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S. Eliot, which so perfectly fitted the mood of the young people between the two wars. I also find much more benevolence towards humanity in younger historians than there was in Spengler or in Toynbee. Still, it is not difficult to sense the disgust of the intellectuals at the new prosperous working class, 'with their eyes glued to the television screen,' who have become indifferent to radical ideas. View quote
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Incomplete knowledge of the future, and also of the past of the transmitter from which the future might be constructed, is at the very basis of the concept of information. On the other hand, complete ignorance also precludes communication; a common language is required, that is to say an agreement between the transmitter and the receiver regarding the elements used in the communication process... [The information of a message can] be defined as the 'minimum number of binary decisions which enable the receiver to construct the message, on the basis of the data already available to him.' These data comprise both the convention regarding the symbols and the language used, and the knowledge available at the moment when the message started. View quote
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