John R. Pierce Professions : Engineer Born : March 27, 1910 Died : April 2, 2002 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by John R. Pierce 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 communication real science Nature abhors the vacuum tube. John R. Pierce tubes vacuums Similar Authors Alan Mulally engineer Bruce White engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel engineer Arthur Rudolph engineer Aron Ralston engineer Anousheh Ansari engineer All Authors