Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by Hermann von Helmholtz Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. In physiology and psychology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on the sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism. In physics, he is... Read full biography of Hermann von Helmholtz → 1 2 Ctrl → Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action... → 0 A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. 0 Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. 0 Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or... → 0 Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of... → 0 Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. 0 Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by... → 0 I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and... → 0 The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be... → 0 The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity... → 0 What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which... → 0 You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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