Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.Ernst Mach
The very gradual character of the changes of the body also contributes to the stability of the ego, but in a much less degree than people imagine.
Ernst Mach
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
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.
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The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.
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.
Ernst Mach
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