Clear Conception Quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz

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• The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes.…
• Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…
• Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
• A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
• Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from…
• Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…
• I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products…
• Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical…
• The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
• I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling…
• The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of…

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