Gustav Kirchhoff Quotes

Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned - the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result of a measurement can be used, it must be interpreted - nature's answer must be understood properly. These two tasks are those of the theorist, who finds himself always more and more dependent on the tools of abstract mathematics. Of course, this does not mean that the experimenter does not also engage in theoretical deliberations. The foremost classical example of a major achievement produced by such a division of labor is the creation of spectrum analysis by the joint efforts of Robert Bunsen, the experimenter, and Gustav Kirchhoff, the theorist. Since then, spectrum analysis has been continually developing and bearing ever richer fruit. ~ Max Planck

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. ~ Gustav Heinemann

We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation. ~ Gustav Mahler

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. ~ Gustav Stresemann

The article I actually write is a masterpiece. It takes talent to convince people that war is a beautiful experience. Come one, come all to exotic Viet Nam, the jewel of Southeast Asia, meet interesting, stimulating people of an ancient culture...and kill them. Be the first kid on your block to get a confirmed kill. ~ Gustav Hasford

The real art of conducting consists in transitions. ~ Gustav Mahler

When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off ... ~ Gustav Ejstes

Gustav," he said, "I'm proud of you. You can relax now. ~ Christopher Healy

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art. ~ Gustav Krupp

Authentic religion teaches one to imagine the other
to consider another's vulnerability and humanity. The beginning of ethics is this trancendent imagination' (Ingrid Mattson). The message, she said, to be expounded by preacher and politician alike is that all human beings possess a God-given dignity. ~ Gustav Niebuhr

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. ~ Gustav Mahler

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. ~ Gustav Nossal

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ~ Gustav Mahler

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army. ~ Gustav Krupp

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it? ~ Gustav Ejstes

I wish I didn't have a heart to love you. ~ Gustav Elijah Åhr

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate. ~ Gustav Krupp

There can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection. ~ Gustav Niebuhr

In your dream you call for Chaplain Charlie. You met the Navy chaplain when you interviewed him for a feature article you were writing. Chaplain Charlie was an amateur magician. With his magic, Chaplain Charlie entertained Marines in sick bays and distributed spiritual tourniquets to men who were still alive, but weaponless. To brutal, godless children Chaplain Charlie spoke about how God is merciful, despite appearances, about how the Ten Commandments lack detail because when you're writing on stone tablets with lightning bolts you've got to be brief, about how the Free World will conquer Communism with aid of God and a few Marines, and about free fish. One day a Vietnamese child booby-trapped Chaplain Charlie's black bag of tricks. Chaplain Charlie reached in and pulled out a bright ball of death... ~ Gustav Hasford

I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. ~ Gustav Mahler

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth. ~ Gustav Heinemann

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state. ~ Gustav Landauer

Maven Gustav, what is that awful noise?" Tobin bellowed, holding his hands over his ears.
"Why, it's my very own creation!" Gustav replied, beaming with pride. "I made this spell to be activated in the event of a castle emergency. In all my tests, it never failed to wake everyone," he noted, proudly.
"Yes, Gustav. It's fantastically loud. Well done. But what is the emergency, and how do we turn the alarm off? ~ R.S. Mollison-Read

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious. ~ Carl Gustav Carus

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down. ~ Gustav Meyrink

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
The Holy Twelve dance with us,
All things join in the dance!
Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing. ~ Gustav Holst

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. ~ Gustav Mahler

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. ~ Gustav Holst

The criticism that I think is more telling is that the only way you are going to knock out this terrorism eventually is not just through the force of arms, but through the force of ideas. ~ Gustav Niebuhr

If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos ... You set the table, you lay the food in the presence of God. Mindfulness is the awareness that shines on every act in every moment. ~ Gustav Niebuhr

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,
Mit der ich sonst viele Zeit verdorben,
Sie hat so lange [von mir nichts]1 vernommen,
Sie mag wohl glauben, ich sei gestorben.

Es ist mir auch gar nichts daran gelegen,
Ob sie mich für gestorben hält,
Ich kann auch gar nichts sagen dagegen,
Denn wirklich bin ich gestorben der Welt.

Ich bin gestorben dem [Weltgewimmel]2,
Und ruh' in einem stillen Gebiet.
Ich leb' allein [in mir und meinem]3 Himmel,
In meinem Lieben, in meinem Lied.

I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song. ~ Gustav Mahler

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. ~ Gustav Heinemann

Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created. ~ Gustav Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach

It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body. ~ Gustav Meyrink

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. ~ Gustav Mahler

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. ~ Gustav Mahler

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music ... ~ Gustav Ejstes

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. ~ Gustav Mahler

The face before him was like nothing he had ever seen before. It was smooth, with a black strip of cloth tied over its forehead, and yet it was deeply furrowed, like the sea, that can have tall waves but not a wrinkle on the surface. The eyes were like dark chasms and yet they were the eyes of a human being and not empty sockets. The skin was a greenish olive colour and looked as if it were made of bronze ... ~ Gustav Meyrink

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ~ Gustav Mahler

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. ~ Gustav Stresemann

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. ~ Gustav Mahler

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without. ~ Gustav Holst