"A raised weight can produce work, but in……" — Hermann von Helmholtz
"A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work."
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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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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in…
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