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

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

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

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.

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

Ernst Mach quotes: Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

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

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

Ernst Mach quotes: What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Ernst Mach quotes: Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Ernst Mach quotes: To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Ernst Mach quotes: Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

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.

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: The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Ernst Mach quotes: Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

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

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

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.

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: Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

Ernst Mach quotes: Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

Ernst Mach quotes: The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

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

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

Ernst Mach quotes: Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

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