Men Quote by Ernst Mach

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

— 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…

— Ernst Mach

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

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

“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.”

— Ernst Mach

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

— Ernst Mach

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

— Ernst Mach

“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

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

— Ernst Mach

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

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

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