I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not really an answer to this question. It is not by finding out more and fresh… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space,… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included. — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
“...the question as to the nature of force will not have been answered; but our minds, no longer vexed, will cease to ask illegitimate… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
