Quotes About Guglielmo Marconi

#1. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Peter O'Toole

#2. Aviators live by hours, not by days.

T.H. White

#3. Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

Guglielmo Marconi

#4. Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?

Guglielmo Marconi

#5. Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.

Hari Kunzru

#6. When I lose, I take it very personally.

Jennie Finch

#7. Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

Guglielmo Marconi

#8. In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Guglielmo Marconi

#9. Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

Guglielmo Marconi

#10. You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

Guglielmo Marconi

#11. It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

William J. Bernstein

#12. The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Guglielmo Marconi

#13. I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

Guglielmo Marconi

#14. I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

Guglielmo Marconi

#15. The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking

Guglielmo Marconi

#16. Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

Guglielmo Marconi

#17. Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies.

Goo Goo Dolls