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

- Heinrich Hertz

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 …

- Heinrich Hertz

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I …

- Heinrich Hertz

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pl…

- 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 it include…

- Heinrich Hertz

Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No com…

- 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 clothe her a…

- Heinrich Hertz

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

- Heinrich Hertz

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