Gustav Kirchhoff Quote

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.


Prorectoratsrede, s, 9, 1865 (p. 24)


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...

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...

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...

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...