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“Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.”

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Reginald Fessenden

Reginald Fessenden was a prominent inventor who made significant contributions to the field of radio communication. He was born on October 6, 1866, and died on July 22, 1932. Fessenden achieved breakthroughs in wireless power transmission, radio telegraphy, and wireless music transmission. more

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“It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is not true. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. This, of course, goes contrary to what everyone accepts.”

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Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.”

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