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.
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.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.
Ernst Mach
In fact, sensations of pleasure and pain, however faint they may be, really constitute an essential part of the content of all so-called emotions.
Ernst Mach
The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Ernst Mach
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
Ernst Mach
The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.
Ernst Mach
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