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	Even considering the improvements possible...the gas
	turbine could hardly be considered a feasible application
	to airplanes because of the difficulties of complying
	with the stringent weight requirements.
						US National Academy Of Science
						1940

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	People have been talking about a 3,000 mile high-angle 
	rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an 
	atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon...
	I think we can leave that out of our thinking.
						Dr. Vannevar Bush
						1945

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	Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an
	unexpected blow at our Pacific possessions... Radio
	makes surprise impossible.
						Josephus Daniels
						1922

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	Fooling around with alternating current is a waste of time.
	Nobody will use it, ever.
						Thomas Edison

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	There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy 
	will be obtainable.
						Albert Einstein
						1932

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	While theoretically and technically television may be
	feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an
	impossibility, a development of which we need waste little
	time dreaming.
						Lee De Forest
						1926

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	The actual building of roads devoted to motor cars is not
	for the near future, in spite of many rumours to that effect.
						Harper's Weekly
						1902

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	Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see
	no hope for future improvements.
						Julius Frontenus
						10 A..D.

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	The ordinary "horseless carriage" is at present a luxury for
	the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the
	future, it will never, of course, come into as common use
	as the bicycle.
						Literary Digest
						1899

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	Landing and moving about on the moon offers so many serious problems
	for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to
	lick them.
						Science Digest
						1948

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	Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers,
	unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
						Dr. Dionysus Lardner
						1793-1859

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	The resistance of air increases as the square of the speed
	and works as the cube [of speed]....  It is clear that with
	our present devices there is no hope of aircraft competing for
	racing speed with either out locomotives or automobiles.
						William Pickering
						1910

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	What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out
	of locomotives travelling twice the speed of stagecoaches?
						Quartely Review
						1825

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	The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a
	very poor kind of thing.  Anyone who expects a source of
	power from the transformations  of these atoms is
	talking moonshine.
						Ernest Rutherford
						1930

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	It can be taken for granted that before 1980 ships, aircraft,
	locomotives  and even automobiles will be automically fueled.
						David Sarnoff
						1955

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	The director of Military Aeronautics of France has decided 
	to discontinue the purchase of monoplanes, their place to
	be filled entirely with bi-planes.  This decision practically
	sounds the death knell of the monoplane as a military instrunent.
						Scientific American
						1915

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	Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our
	attention from serious things.  We are in great haste to construct
	a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas,
	it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
						Henry David Thoreau

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	I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring,
	refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but
	soffocating its crew and foundering at sea.
						H.G. Wells
						1901

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	As far as sinking a ship with a bomb is concerned, 
	you just can't do it.
						Rear Admiral Clark Woodward
						1939

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