A Quote by Heinrich Hertz

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

Heinrich Hertz

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Heinrich Hertz
German - Physicist
February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894

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Ragnar Frisch

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Arthur Eddington

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Charles Babbage

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Shirley MacLaine

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Joel Osteen

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James Russell Lowell

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Steve McConnell

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.