"A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion……" — Hermann von Helmholtz
"A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion."
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Hermann von Helmholtz
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27 Quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz
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The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all…
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Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in…
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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in…
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
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Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly…
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in…
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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and…
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in…
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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…
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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…
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Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a…
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More Concealed Quotes
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to…
— Honore de Balzac
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
— Theodor Adorno
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed…
— Sandra Bullock
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
— Blaise Pascal
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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