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...
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. Ernst Mach
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Ernst Mach
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
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.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. Ernst Mach
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. Ernst Mach
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
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.
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.
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.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. Ernst Mach
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
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.
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. Ernst Mach
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.
