Hermann von Helmholtz: Quotes about nature

Hermann von Helmholtz was physicist and physiologist. Explore interesting quotes on nature.
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“The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

Summarizing the Law of Conservation of Force, in "On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 280
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)

Nature

“The last decades of scientific development have led us to the recognition of a new universal law of all natural phenomena, which, from its extraordinarily extended range, and from the connection which it constitutes between natural phenomena of all kinds, even of the remotest times and the most distant places, is especially fitted to give us an idea of what I have described as the character of the natural sciences, which I have chosen as the subject of this lecture.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

"On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 279
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)

Law , Idea , Nature , Universe

“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

"On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 280
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)

Intelligence , Nature , Thinking

“There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole — a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

"On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 279
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1881)

Nature , Wealth

“The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.”

Hermann von Helmholtz

The Theory of Sound (1862)

Way , Nature