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Ernst Mach Quotes: Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
         

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.


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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.

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.



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.

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.



Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.



Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought



I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.



Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.



What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.



Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.



Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.



Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.





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