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“To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.”

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Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann, born on February 20, 1844, and died on September 5, 1906, was a prominent physicist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made significant contributions to statistical physics and the kinetic theory of gases. Boltzmann is known for his formulation of Boltzmann's distribution law, which is a fundamental concept in statistical physics, and his statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics. more

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