To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific …

- Lee De Forest

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

- Lee De Forest

You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

- Lee De Forest

I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!

- Lee De Forest

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

- Lee De Forest

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

- Lee De Forest

I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in se…

- Lee De Forest

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in …

- Lee De Forest