Ernst Mach Quotes

Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all
unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. - 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

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. - Ernst Mach

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. - Ernst Mach

Personally, people know themselves very poorly. - Ernst Mach

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. - 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

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. - Ernst Mach

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. - Ernst Mach

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. - Ernst Mach

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