All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.” — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
