Guglielmo Marconi Quotes

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This new form of communication could have some utility.

Guglielmo Marconi
Necessity is the cause of many inventions but the best ones are born of desire.

Guglielmo Marconi
The more I work with the forces of Nature and sense the Divine good-will towards mankind the more I am brought into contact with the great truth: that everything is ordered by the Lord and Giver of Life and this so-called science I work with is just an expression of the Supreme Will which wants to put human beings in contact with each other to help them improve and have a greater mutual understanding.

Guglielmo Marconi
The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Guglielmo Marconi
The inventor is the greatest revolutionist in the world.

Guglielmo Marconi
Within the next two generations we shall have not only wireless telegraphy and telephony, but also wireless transmission of all power for individual and corporate use, wireless heating and light, and wireless fertilizing of fields. When all that has been accomplished — as it surely will be — mankind will be free from many of the burdens imposed by present economic conditions.

Guglielmo Marconi
I am not personally a socialist; I have small faith in any political propaganda; but I do believe that the progress of invention will create a state which will realize most of the present dreams of the socialists.

Guglielmo Marconi
In the future the government will be the owner of all energy. Individuals will use it to a certain amount free of any charge, but for the rest they will have to pay for the state a definite tribute. This will naturally make railways, telegraphy, telephone, vessels and mills a public ownership.

Guglielmo Marconi
The main trouble with all the today's economic friction is that the energy can be owned by certain privileged individuals, who use it for their own selfish ends but not for the benefit of humanity.

Guglielmo Marconi
A simple illustration of the action of these ether waves is that of throwing a stone into a placid lake. A series of ripples is created which spread out in circles. Any small piece of wood which may be floating upon the surface will bob up and down in each consecutive ripple. This is the principle of every wireless transmission, be it dispatch, sound, heat or energy. The diference is only in the length of the wave and the velocity of its oscillation.

Guglielmo Marconi
A cable across the Atlantic costs four million dollars and requires constant repairs. But I can equip stations on both sides of the ocean for less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Guglielmo Marconi
One thing is certain; I can declare to you that from the day of my discovery to the present time I have never ceased to study and investigate those phenomena, anxious as I always am to wring some other secret from the enormous mystery of the universe.

Guglielmo Marconi