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Hermann von Helmholtz was a German physicist, physiologist, and physician. He made significant contributions to the fields of physiology, physics, and philosophy, particularly in the theories of hearing and vision. His research had a profound impact on subsequent physiology and psychology.

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“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

Action Science Force Understanding Natural Perfect Moral Technology Achieve Science And Technology

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“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.”

Way Used Given Natural Products Harmony Structure Hearing Scales Invention Used To Be Artistic Behaviour Formation

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“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.”

Thinking Men Trying Doe Hard Play Courses Force Natural Activity Capable Machines Intense Latter Comparison Exertion

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.”

Shows Law Natural Differences Products Ease Conformity Exhibits Thorough Natural Phenomena

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

About the Author

Born: August 31, 1821
Died: September 8, 1894
Known for: Physician
Quotes: 29

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On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of MusicRelated source material

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