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Michael Idvorsky Pupin
(4 Oct 1858 - 12 Mar 1935)
Serbian-American physicist who invented how to increase the range of long-distance telephone communication with wire-wound loading coils at suitable intervals along the telephone cable.
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Science Quotes by Michael Idvorsky Pupin (5 quotes)
If you wish to go out into the world about which you hear so much…, you must provide yourself with another pair of eyes; the eyes of reading and writing. There is so much wonderful knowledge and learning in the world which you cannot get unless you can read and write.
— Michael Idvorsky Pupin
In his words, what he recalls his mother telling him as a boy, in From Immigrant to Inventor: An Example to Young Americans (1922, 1934), 12.
Knowledge is the golden ladder over which we climb to heaven; knowledge is the light which illuminates our path through this life and leads to a future life of everlasting glory.
— Michael Idvorsky Pupin
In his words, what he recalls his mother telling him as a boy, in From Immigrant to Inventor: An Example to Young Americans (1922, 1934), 12.
Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
— Michael Idvorsky Pupin
As quoted in Dorothy Caruso, Enrico Caruso: His Life and Death (1963), 41.
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.
— Michael Idvorsky Pupin
In 'From Chaos to Cosmos', Scribner's Magazine (July 1924), 76, No. 1, 9. Reprinted in The New Reformation: From Physical to Spiritual Realities (1927), 205.
We would never get away from it. … It’s bad enough as it is, but with the wireless telephone one could be called up at the opera, in church, in our beds. Where could one be free from interruption?
[Prediction about the cell phone made over a century ago.]
[Prediction about the cell phone made over a century ago.]
— Michael Idvorsky Pupin
New York Times (23 Jan 1910), Sunday Magazine Section, 6.
See also:
- 4 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Pupin's birth.
- From Immigrant to Inventor, by Michael Pupin. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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