The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.
Hermann von HelmholtzA metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
Hermann von HelmholtzNot that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Hermann von HelmholtzMusic stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
Hermann von Helmholtz