To err is human

To err is human - the greatest scientists, politicians, journalists and cultural figures - is no exception. I suggest to get acquainted with the most interesting statements of the past, which were denied by our present. Read on.





"There is not the slightest conditions to ensure that nuclear energy will ever be available. This would mean that the atom would have to be destroyed at will. " - Albert Einstein, 1932

"We do not like their sound, and guitar music is already on the decline." - Record company "Decca" rekording, refused to sign a contract with the Beatles, 1962



"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered it as a means of communication. For us it is of no value. " - Western Union internal memo, 1876



"Travelling by train at high speed is not possible because passengers, could not breathe and would die of asphyxia." - Dr. Dionysius Lardner 1830



"X-rays, it is a hoax and deception." - Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society 1883



"The horse is a long time, and the car - only a novelty - a fad." - President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903



"Television will not live long, because people soon get tired of staring at a plywood seat box." - Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946



"There is no reason for a person to have their own computer at home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a report made to the World Future Society, 1977 in Boston



"The wireless music box no commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to someone not specifically? "- David Sarnoff partners, responding to the call of the latter to invest in radio in 1921



"There will never be built larger aircraft." - Engineer of Boeing, after the first flight 247 airplane on two engines, which is able to move ten



"How, sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and waves, igniting a fire under his deck? I beg you, forgive me, I do not have time to listen to such nonsense. " - Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton steamboat, 1800s



"The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron buses absurd. It smacks of an attempt to weaken the army and even treason. " - Comment Field Marshal Haig's adjutant, in a demonstration of the tank 1916



"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but strangling her team and floundering in the sea." - HG Wells, the British novelist, in 1901



"Never rocket will not be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere» - New York Times, 1936



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