Quotes by Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

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.

Source

Space

Temperature

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.

Different

Movement

Vivid

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

Consideration

Essence

Students

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Circles

Life

Math

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Medicine

Philosophy

Soma

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.

Believe

Science

Support

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Atoms

Follow Your Dreams

Littles

I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider’s web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.

Confusion

Powerful

Support

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.

Essentials

Science

Teacher

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

Dream

Importance

Individualism

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Abandon

Acquisition

Adaptation

Arriving

Atoms

Average

Believe

Body

Bottom

Boys

Broken

Cases

Circles

Confusion

Consideration

Definite

Development

Different

Doe

Doubt

Dream

Ego

Elements

Essence

Essentials

Example

Expenditures

Experience

Experiments

Facts

Fields

Follow Your Dreams

Importance

Important

Impress

Individualism

Ink

Intellectual

Investigation

Knows

Laughter

Law

Life

Light

Littles

Math

May

Mean

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Quotes by Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach

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.

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.

All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

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.

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

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