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 MachAbout author
- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: February 18, 1838
- Died: February 19, 1916
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