"Everyone is free to set up an opinion……" — Ernst Mach
"Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them."
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Ernst Mach
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34 Quotes by Ernst Mach
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned…
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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot…
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and…
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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