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- The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to…
- The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea,…
- Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to…
- One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the…
- Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology, and acquires therein…
- This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few…
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