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Acquisition Quote by Ernst Mach

“The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve…” quote by Ernst Mach — Download Open image

“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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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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