Edwin Howard Armstrong
An American electrical engineer who invented FM radio and made significant contributions to radio technology.
Most quoted
"The radio art is a peculiar one. It is not like the telephone, where you can talk to one person. It is like a public address system, where you talk to everybody, whether they want to listen or not."
— from Biography of Edwin Howard Armstrong
"The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture, or a retirement fund. The only real security is the ability to produce, to create, to invent."
— from Attributed
"I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so."
— from Attributed
All quotes by Edwin Howard Armstrong (356)
The world needs more independent thinkers and fewer conformists.
I have fought for what I believe in, and I have no regrets.
The greatest challenge for an inventor is not in conceiving an idea, but in bringing it to fruition.
The future of radio is not just about entertainment; it is about education, information, and connection.
To truly innovate, one must be willing to break free from the constraints of existing technology.
The history of technology is a story of constant evolution and disruption.
My only regret is that I did not live to see FM fully embraced by the world.
Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
The world is full of experts who will tell you what can't be done.
If you want to see what is truly important to a man, look at what he spends his time and money on.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
The radio art is being strangled in its infancy by the telephone monopoly.
The regenerative circuit was not an accident but the result of a determined search for a means of amplifying high-frequency currents.
It seems to me that there is a great need for a simple, efficient, and foolproof method of receiving continuous waves.
The superheterodyne is the most important circuit ever developed in radio.
FM is static-free broadcasting.
I stand for the principle that an inventor owns his invention.
The history of radio shows that the greatest advances have come from the individual inventor, not from the large corporations.
They are trying to steal my invention, but I will fight them to the end.
Contemporaries of Edwin Howard Armstrong
Other Inventions born within 50 years of Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954).