Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

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

Hermann von Helmholtz

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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

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• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

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• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

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• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

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• I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

  

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• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

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• I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!

  

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• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

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• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

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• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

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• I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

  

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  

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• Form follows beauty.

  

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• So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.

  

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• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

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• I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

  

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• Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

  

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• Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

  

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• The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Science
  • Popular
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• Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Science
  • Vain
  • Utility