Ernst Mach
Physicist
1838-02-18
Books by Ernst Mach
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Mechanik in ihrer Entwickelung
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The analysis of sensations and the relation of the physical to the psychical
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Prinzipien der physikalischen Optik
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Quotes by 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.
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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.
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.
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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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