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Science Quotes by Ernst Mach
- 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.
- 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…
- Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought
- Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
- 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.
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