Hermann Von Helmholtz Quotes
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
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 him, than it was to discover the new truth.
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.
Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.