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Hermann von Helmholtz has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.…
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Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical…
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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
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A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
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Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from…
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with…
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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products…
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical…
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The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.
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I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling…
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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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