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.

Ernst Mach

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• I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Behavior
  • Experiment

• I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Image

• Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Experiment

• Cézanne's painting is strictly painting, and its value is immense; but Van Gogh's painting has the Outsider's characteristic: it is a laboratory refuse of a man who treated his own life as an experiment in living; it faithfully records moods and developments of vision on the manner of a Bildungsroman.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Painting

• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Thought
  • Theory

• In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Physics
  • Valuable

• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Creativity
  • Room
  • Experiment

• The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Vision
  • Director
  • Imagery

• Green Screen was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Green
  • Experiment
  • Network

• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Ideas
  • Source
  • Inventor

• The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Theory
  • Experiment

• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Return
  • Instruction
  • Bloody

• What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Nature
  • Human being
  • Experiment

• You can be spontaneous in another way because you don’t have the time pressures. If you have a lot of time, you can fool around of stuff. If we have time pressures, it’s like back-to-back work. When you have more time, you can experiment a little bit more. That’s a very good thing.

  

  Simen Hestnæs Borknagar
  • Time
  • Experiment

• With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Joy
  • Experiment
  • Producer

• Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer was a challenge in a lot of ways. It all shaped what the band went on to become through the '90s. After we made 'Goo,' we went out and toured with Neil Young in ice hockey arenas for three months, and that was the same kind of thing.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Experiment

• I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Invention
  • Inventor

• I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • School
  • Art
  • Girl

• The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • World
  • Idea
  • Possesses

• I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration when the costumes arrive and I can see his silhouette in the mirror. Then I go memorize all the lines and try and connect each line to a thought I think he might have. Then I show up on the day, wait my turn, and when the director calls "action," I trust that I have done enough work on my impression that I can just believe it strongly enough to play with abandon from inside that character.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Character
  • Experiment
  • Posture

• It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Write

• To move into the future, a bit of recklessness is necessary.

  

  Jun Matsumoto Arashi
  • Future
  • Move
  • Recklessness

• The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Work
  • Secret
  • Missionary work

• 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.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Experiment
  • Inventor
  • Translating