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 ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. Ernst Mach
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. Ernst Mach
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
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.
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.
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 fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. Ernst Mach
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. Ernst Mach
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
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.
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.