"The task which we have set ourselves is……" — Ernst Mach
"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."
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Ernst Mach
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34 Quotes by Ernst Mach
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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the…
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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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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind…
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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such…
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon…
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a…
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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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The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his…
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things…
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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