Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

“I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.”

Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

Create image

Author

Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz

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. more

You May Also Like

“One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.”

YearsLongTwoCountryScienceThreeBornHalfFourEffectsCenturyMaterialsWallWalkingSummerStonesOppositesPressureSandFarmsAtomsStillnessGravityGrainYardsSectionsSummer DaysHalf A CenturyStone WallsSumming UpCountry Roads
Author:John Burroughs
Create image

“Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.”

MeanFactsScienceCertainValuesNumbersLimitsWeightMajorityInstanceAtomsVaryCalcium
Author:William Crookes
Create image