Guglielmo Marconi

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

The only constant in life is change.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The greatest wealth is health.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

The soul is not in the body, but the body in the soul.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The coming of the wireless era will make possible the transmission of intelligence from one end of the world to the other without the use of wires, and will revolutionize the methods of communication.

I have not invented a method of transmitting messages without wires, but I have discovered a means of making practical use of an existing scientific principle.

The aether, which is supposed to fill all space, is the medium through which these waves travel. We are only beginning to understand its properties.

It is not a question of whether it can be done, but how soon it can be done.

Some people have called my work a 'scientific toy.' I believe it will prove to be a powerful instrument for the benefit of mankind.

The day will come when wireless telegraphy will be used for the transmission of power as well as messages.

I am not a scientist in the sense that I have made any great discovery in pure science. I am an engineer who has applied scientific principles to practical problems.