Een tiental experts stelde dat de volgende uitvindingen onmogelijkheden waren.
“How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s
“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” — Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
“Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires, and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.” – Redactie van de Boston Post, 1865
“X-rays are a hoax.” – Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900
“The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.” — Reactie van adjudant op veldmaarschalk Haig, bij een tankdemonstratie, 1916
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.” – Albert Einstein, 1932
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936.
“There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States.” — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner, 1961
“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates, bij de lancering van de MSX in 1983
“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” — Robert Metcalfe, oprichter van netwerkapparatuurfabrikant 3Com, 1995
Kortom: het is uitermate onverstandig om dingen die niet in strijd zijn met de natuurwetten zoals we die nu kennen, onmogelijkheden te noemen. Ook is het laatste woord over deze natuurwetten nog niet gezegd. Wie had neutrino’s, supergeleiding en donkere materie voorspeld?
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