The ultimate aim of physical science must be to demonstrate the movements which are the real causes of all other phenomena and discover the motive powers on which they all depend; in other words, to merge itself into mechanics.


Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects, Lecture VIII (p. 375), D. Appleton & Company. 1885

Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

The ultimate aim of physical science must be to demonstrate the movements which are the real causes of all other phenomena and discover the motive...

The ultimate aim of physical science must be to demonstrate the movements which are the real causes of all other phenomena and discover the motive...

The ultimate aim of physical science must be to demonstrate the movements which are the real causes of all other phenomena and discover the motive...

The ultimate aim of physical science must be to demonstrate the movements which are the real causes of all other phenomena and discover the motive...