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Counting Quote by 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 counting.” quote by Ernst Mach — Download Open image

“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.”

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we ourselves and all our thoughts are also a part of nature. It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things by time. Quite the contrary, time is an abstraction, at which we arrive…

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

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Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. Full of the…

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Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.

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A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

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