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Julius Robert von Mayer
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“Nature has put itself the problem of how to catch in flight light streaming to the Earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My early feeling that scientific truths are to the Christian religion much what brooks and rivers are to the ocean, has become my most vital conviction. Tempted as I was to drift with the tempest of passion, I had made shipwreck in these latter years, had not in my heaviest hours the Mercy of God, through your instrumentality, kept me always on the right path.”
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 31 1851, as translated by Kneller, Karl Alois. 1911. pp. 18. Christianity and the Leaders of Modern Science. London.
“With heartfelt conviction I say it: A sound philosophy must and can be nothing else than a propaedeutic to Christianity.”
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Original: Aus vollem Herzen rufe ich es aus: Eine richtige Philosophie darf und kann nichts anderes sein als eine Propädeutik für die christliche Religion. (As quoted in "Robert Mayer und das Energieprinzip, 1842-1942: …
“Were it not for this inalterable armony, pre-established by God, between subject and object, all our thinking would be necessarily without fruit.”
Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008) in The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years . World Scientific. p. 297