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“Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.” quote by Hermann von Helmholtz — Download Open image

“Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.”

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During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his…

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“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in vain ... But the pride I might have held in my conclusions was perceptibly lessened by the fact that I knew that the solution of these problems had almost always come to me as the gradual generalization of…

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The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand…

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There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a…

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The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and…

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What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

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A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep…

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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 to their…

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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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But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of…

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TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

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Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And as you begin to treat yourself with more respect, other people begin to do the same, since we subconsciously "train" others how to treat us through messages we send through body language, tone of voice,…

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