The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Heinrich Hertz
- I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
- One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
- 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 pleasant feeling.
- Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.
- 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 at our pleasure.
- 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 do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.
- 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 the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.
- In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views, and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.
- 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.
- 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 relations and connections that it can be answered; but by removing the contradictions existing between those already known, and thus perhaps by reducing their number. When these painful contradictions are removed, the question as to the nature of force will not have been answered; but our minds, no longer vexed, will cease to ask illegitimate questions.
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) was a German physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to the field of electromagnetism. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Hertz studied physics at the University of Berlin under renowned scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff.
Hertz is best known for his experimental confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory of light, which had predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves. In 1887, he successfully generated and detected radio waves, thus demonstrating the existence of these waves as predicted by Maxwell’s equations. This achievement laid the foundation for the development of wireless communication technology, including radio, television, and radar.
Hertz also made significant contributions to the study of the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon later explained by Albert Einstein and crucial to the development of quantum theory.
Tragically, Hertz’s life and career were cut short when he died of Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare autoimmune disease, at the age of just 36. Despite his short life, his experiments and discoveries had a profound impact on the fields of physics and technology, shaping the course of scientific advancement in the 20th century and beyond.
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