Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will … - Hermann von Helmholtz

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To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

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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.

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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.

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Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

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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.

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And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be "See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't. " I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them.

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