Ernst Mach Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• 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.

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  Science, Sound, Saving

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

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  Science, Reality, Self

• 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.

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  Teacher, Science, Essentials

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical Inquiry”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

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  Laughter, Science, Soul

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

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  Believe, Science, Support

  Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”

• Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

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  Science, Order, Experience

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.197, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

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  Science, May, Facts

  Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”

• 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

  Science, Facts, Cases

  Ernst Mach (2012). “Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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