Achieve Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

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