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- In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin…
- Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means…
- Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and…
- ... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to…
- 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…
- The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
- 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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