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Evasion Quote by 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 operations.” quote by Ernst Mach — Download Open image

“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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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in…

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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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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

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