Edwin Howard Armstrong Professions : Electrical engineer Born : December 18, 1890 Died : January 31, 1954 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Edwin Howard Armstrong Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation. Edwin Howard Armstrong inspiration numbers science Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words. Edwin Howard Armstrong arguing men reality Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications. Edwin Howard Armstrong science book art I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. Edwin Howard Armstrong ignorance people world The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination. Edwin Howard Armstrong science long thinking Similar Authors Arthur E. Kennelly electrical-engineer Andy Bechtolsheim electrical-engineer Amar Bose electrical-engineer Irwin M. Jacobs electrical-engineer Dov Frohman electrical-engineer Harold Stephen Black electrical-engineer All Authors
