Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894

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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

John Buford

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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.

John David Washington

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I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.

Matt McGorry

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The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Sue Grafton

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Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.

Tom Cruise

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It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

Robert Wyatt

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It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.

Lucien Engelen

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My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

Dolores O'Riordan

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I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

Denzel Washington

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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Donna Shalala

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