[Hegel’s] system nature seemed, least natural philosophers, absolutely — Hermann von Helmholtz, Science Culture: Popular Philosophical Essays

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[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launched out with particular vehemence and acrimony against the natural philosophers, and especially against Isaac Newton. The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were insane.

Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

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