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Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes: Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.
         

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.


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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.



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The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.



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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.



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