Ernst Mach Quotes

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• Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. Bodies
• Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. Ago
• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It… Brightly
• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. From
• Personally, people know themselves very poorly. Funny
• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other… Any
• The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. Absolutely
• The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives,… Abandon
• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called… Apart
• Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but… Afford
• Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought Complete
• Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Arranged
• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. All
• 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… All

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