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“What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.”

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of…

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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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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge…

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

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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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“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we…

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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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Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

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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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