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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Events Mental Said Passive Subject Happenings Acts
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Together Mind Other Immediate Ease Mutually Direction Proportional Developed Simultaneously Ideas Greater Frequency Were Been Same Reproduce Which Succession Certainty Original Each
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Change Degree Example Perception Other Constantly Given Directions For Example Ideas Greater Occurs Stimuli According Accuracy Interest Certainly Less External
Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Heart Must Anew Similar Learned Been Conditions Times Forgotten Which Series Inner Syllables
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Other Detailed Mutually Individual Through Command His Same Dependent Information Which Theoretical Each Grow Amount
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Events Flux Constant Admit Mental Conditions Stable Establishment Experimental Caprice
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Day Needs Learning Heart First Half Relation Learned Were Repeating Repetitions Than Shortest Less English Series Amplification Syllable Necessary
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Morning Impress Rules Must Force Himself Learn Knows Altogether His Again Them Night
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Time Together Several Drawn Out About Construct Material Test Were Mixed Different Which Formed Then Used Series Each Each Time Syllables Chance Number
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Hermann Hesse
Happiness Me Feeling Contentment Few Own Nothing Changes Else Harmony My Own Well-Being Around Existence Few Things Things Needed
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Hermann Hesse
Men Incredible Threatened Ideals Accomplish Prepared
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. Hermann Hesse
Me Relationship Increasing Symptom See Write Between Category Readers Continuously Literature Which Certain Growing Letters Among
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking. Hermann Hesse
Spring Thinking Exception Without Questions Same Which Your
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school. Hermann Hesse
Daily Silence School Would Outside Reminders House Sound Still Reverie Were Been Heard Up Quiet Getting Going Duties Either Disrupted
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added. Hermann Oberth
Big Added Speeds Top Small Rocket Big One Then
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. Hermann Oberth
Strong Looking Past Our System Lights Like Looking Forward Educational Automobile Which Barely Rear Forward Illuminating Brightly Things
The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. Hermann von Helmholtz
Nature Property Matter Older Indeed Indestructible Fine Unchangeable Quantity Very Heat Essential Substance Which View Fundamental
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. Hermann von Helmholtz
Natural Law Stated Thorough Ease Laws More Exhibit Exists Difference Which Conformity Natural Phenomena Then Show Products Comparative Phenomena
Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. Hermann von Helmholtz
Other Spiral Brought Magnet Magnetic Steel Wire Pieces Attracts Becomes Iron Current Which Placed Then Electrical Near Copper
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. Hermann von Helmholtz
Great You Before Others Our Varied Steam Development Powerful Know Industry How Effects Begun Which Them Capable Century Really Engines
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. Hermann von Helmholtz
Our Astonishment Indeed Fact Individual Taken Practical Arouse Itself Curiosity Us Useful Each Each Individual Applications
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. Hermann von Helmholtz
Thought Laws Faculty Call Discovering Them Us Reason Innate Applying
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. Hermann von Helmholtz
Nature Law Action Increased Diminished Neither Brought Unchangeable Force Quantity Nor Question Which Whole
A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. Hermann von Helmholtz
Would Retarded Force Motion Continue Any Move Moving Eternity Body Whose Resisting
A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. Hermann von Helmholtz
Work Fall Before Must Remains Weight Longer Doing Fallen Sink Height Produce Deep Gravity Necessarily Raised
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. Hermann von Helmholtz
Time Fire Striking Impact Some Case Steel Imperfectly Instance Powerful Also Well Hammer Friction Iron Heat Blows Bar Against Elastic Produce Worked Produced Bodies Flint
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