Heinrich Hertz

I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force,…

— Heinrich Hertz

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to…

— Heinrich Hertz

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we…

— Heinrich Hertz

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

— Heinrich Hertz

“One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are…

— Heinrich Hertz

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

— Heinrich Hertz

Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the…

— Heinrich Hertz

Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we…

— Heinrich Hertz

“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the…

— Heinrich Hertz

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which…

— Heinrich Hertz

In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and…

— Heinrich Hertz

“...the question as to the nature of force will not have been answered; but our minds, no longer vexed, will cease to…

— Heinrich Hertz

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are…

— Heinrich Hertz

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether…

— Heinrich Hertz