Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach (18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as study of&nbs...
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Ernst Mach
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Ernst Mach
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. Ernst Mach
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Ernst Mach
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly. Ernst Mach
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
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
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.
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Ernst Mach
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
