Hiram Maxim Professions : Inventor Born : February 5, 1840 Died : November 24, 1916 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Hiram Maxim In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.' Hiram Maxim vienna cutting want I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings. Hiram Maxim majority humanity science But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908) Hiram Maxim errors science thinking Similar Authors Arthur P. Warner inventor Arthur Fry inventor Bill Lear inventor Itzhak Bentov inventor Dr. An Wang inventor David Dunbar Buick inventor All Authors
