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The highest object at which the natural sciences are constrained to aim, but which they will never reach, is the determination of the forces which are present in nature, and of the state of matter at any given moment—in one word, the reduction of all the phenomena of nature to mechanics.

Gustav Kirchhoff

Experience is the collecting of what is similar in different particular perceptions.

Gustav Kirchhoff

Mechanics is the science of motion; its object may be stated to be to describe in the most complete and simple way the motion that takes place in nature.

Gustav Kirchhoff

There are such limits to our knowledge of nature, must be borne with patience by every sound mind whether he be a scientist or a workman. I can only advise you to leave off all impossible aspirations and trying to conceive things that are beyond conception. This requires a struggle, but a struggle is the lot of many men of all professions.

Gustav Kirchhoff

The highest object to which the natural sciences are constrained to aim, but which they will never reach, is the determination of the forces, which are present in nature, and of the state of matter at any given moment - that is, the reduction of all the phenomena of nature to mechanics.

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff

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Born: March 12, 1824

Died: October 17, 1887 (aged 63)

Bio: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.

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