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Ernst Mach Quotes

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances Picture Quote #1

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena Picture Quote #1

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances Picture Quote #1

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies Picture Quote #1

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order Picture Quote #1

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought Picture Quote #1

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly Picture Quote #1

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations Picture Quote #1

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations Picture Quote #1

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us Picture Quote #1

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence Picture Quote #1

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas Picture Quote #1

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact Picture Quote #1

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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought Picture Quote #1

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted Picture Quote #1

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth Picture Quote #1

$Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again Picture Quote #1$

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 Picture Quote #1

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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. (Ernst Mach Quotes) It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena (Ernst Mach Quotes) Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances (Ernst Mach Quotes) The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies (Ernst Mach Quotes) Physics is experience, arranged in economical order (Ernst Mach Quotes) Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought (Ernst Mach Quotes) Personally, people know themselves very poorly (Ernst Mach Quotes) Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations (Ernst Mach Quotes) Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations (Ernst Mach Quotes) If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us (Ernst Mach Quotes) Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Ernst Mach Quotes) The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence (Ernst Mach Quotes) I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas (Ernst Mach Quotes) Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact (Ernst Mach Quotes) Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought (Ernst Mach Quotes) I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted (Ernst Mach Quotes) Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth (Ernst Mach Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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