Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished... therefore, the quantity of force in Nature is just as eternal and unalterable as the quantity of matter.... I have named [this] general law "The Principle of the Conservation of Force."


Uber die Erhaltung der Kraft (1847)

Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished... therefore, the quantity of force in Nature...

Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished... therefore, the quantity of force in Nature...

Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished... therefore, the quantity of force in Nature...

Nature as a whole possesses a store of force which cannot in any way be either increased or diminished... therefore, the quantity of force in Nature...