Elisha Gray cytaty

Elisha Gray – amerykański inżynier elektryk, współzałożyciel Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Największy rozgłos przyniosło mu zbudowanie w 1876 roku w Highland Park w Illinois prototypu telefonu. Jest uważany przez niektórych za prawdziwego wynalazcę telefonu o zmiennym oporze, pomimo tego że utracił patent na rzecz Alexandra Bella.

Gray jest również uważany za ojca współczesnego syntezatora. Uzyskał przeszło 70 patentów. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Sierpień 1835 – 21. Styczeń 1901
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“It is the province of the scientist to reveal the facts of nature as they now exist, and leave the rest to the speculation of the philosopher and the theologian.”

Familiar talks on science, Volume 2 (1900), p. 157
Nature's Miracles (1900)
Kontekst: It is the province of the scientist to reveal the facts of nature as they now exist, and leave the rest to the speculation of the philosopher and the theologian. The growth of vegetation made it possible for animal and insect life to exist, and the earth teemed with both; first of an inferior kind, but later, as the conditions for a higher order of life were right, the higher order came with the improved conditions. In this way was the earth through countless ages of time prepared for man — God's highest creation.

“Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.”

Energy and vibration: energy, sound, heat, light, explosives (1900); Fords, Howard & Hulbert, p. 201
Nature's Miracles (1900)
Kontekst: Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.