Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.


'An Autobiographical Sketch' (1891). Trans. E. Atkinson, Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, Second Series, New Edition (1895), 284–5

Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with...

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with...

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with...

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with...