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