Heinrich Hertz

The future belongs to those who are curious and open-minded.

I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to human knowledge.

The most valuable asset a scientist has is his imagination.

I often find solace in my work when the world outside is turbulent.

To understand nature is to understand oneself.

I am a seeker of truth, and I will follow it wherever it leads.

The universe is a symphony of forces, and we are just beginning to hear its music.

My greatest hope is that my work will benefit humanity.

The path to knowledge is often arduous, but the rewards are immeasurable.

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, that we get more out of them than we originally put into them.

The relation between light and electricity is now so firmly established that we may say that light is an electrical phenomenon.

I am far from thinking that I have exhausted the subject. On the contrary, I am convinced that much more remains to be discovered.

The most important result of my work is that it has shown that Maxwell's theory is correct.

The waves I have discovered are not light, but they are of the same nature as light.

It is impossible to study the phenomena of electricity without a certain feeling of awe.

The question of the nature of electricity is one of the most profound and difficult problems in physics.

The experimental verification of Maxwell's theory is a triumph for theoretical physics.

My experiments have shown that electric waves can be reflected, refracted, and polarized, just like light waves.

The velocity of electric waves is equal to the velocity of light.

The phenomena of electric waves are so similar to those of light waves that it is difficult to resist the conclusion that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon.