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Ernst Mach Quotes

Ernst Mach quotes

Austrian Physicist February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916

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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 as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. Ernst Mach
Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again. Ernst Mach
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. Ernst Mach
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable,..."
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Ernst Mach
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. Ernst Mach
Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and..."
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from..."
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "Personally, people know themselves very poorly."
Personally, people know themselves very poorly. Ernst Mach
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. Ernst Mach
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to..."
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach
A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough. Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach quote: "Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Ernst Mach

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