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.
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought - Ernst Mach
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought
- Ernst Mach
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. - Ernst Mach
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.
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, u… - Ernst Mach
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, u…
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. - Ernst Mach
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
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.
I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have … - Ernst Mach
I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have …
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; bu… - Ernst Mach
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; bu…
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas. - Ernst Mach
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. - Ernst Mach
Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.
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