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Atoms Quote by Ernst Mach

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“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 a tool for representing phenomena.”

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct…

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The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

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