Heinrich Hertz quotes

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. (Heinrich Hertz)
It's of no use whatsoever. This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right-we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there. View quote
Heinrich Hertz
If we wish to lend more color to the theory, there is nothing to prevent us from supplementing all this and aiding our powers of imagination by concrete representations of the various conceptions as to the nature of electric polarisation, the electric current, etc. View quote
Heinrich Hertz
It is not particularly satisfactory to see equations set forth as direct results of observation and experiment, where we used to get long mathematical deductions as apparent proofs of them. Nevertheless, I believe that we cannot, without deceiving ourselves, extract much more from known facts than is asserted in the papers referred to. If we wish to lend more color to the theory, there is nothing to prevent us from supplementing all this and aiding our powers of imagination by concrete representations of the various conceptions as to the nature of electric polarisation, the electric current, etc. View quote
Heinrich Hertz