All Ernst Mach Quotes
- Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. Completest
- Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… Any
- It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain… Atom
- I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas. Accept
- A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon… Colour
- In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that… Always Contains
- Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. Counting
- The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as… Adapt
- Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. Adaptation
- The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him… Clear
- The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses;… Blindness
- Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Adaptation
- Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole… Astronomy
- To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as… Abstraction
- Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Consciously
- If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Connected
- When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for… Boy
- Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his… Adduce
- The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… Abandon
- A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed… Always Takes