Ernst Mach

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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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. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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

— Ernst Mach

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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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

— Ernst Mach

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

— Ernst Mach

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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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

— Ernst Mach

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The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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