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Comprehension Quote by Ernst Mach

“The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.” quote by Ernst Mach — Download Open image

“The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.”

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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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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