Physics
- William Robert Grove publishes The Correlation of Physical Forces, the first comprehensive account of the conservation of energy.
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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