The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

- Robert Mayer

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of …

- Robert Mayer

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

- Robert Mayer

The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of …

- Robert Mayer

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination o…

- Robert Mayer

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

- Robert Mayer

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

- Robert Mayer

Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To a…

- Robert Mayer