Not only did he teach by ...

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.
 Edwin Howard Armstrong

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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.
 Edwin Howard Armstrong
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
 Edwin Howard Armstrong