Ernst Mach Quotes
What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.
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Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
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I painted a painting called 'Milk River' in 1963 Cows don't give milk if they don't have grass and water Tremendous meaning of that is that painters can't give anything to the observer. People get what they need from a painting. The painter need not die because of responsibility. When you have inspiration and represent inspirationThe observer makes the painting.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.
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Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
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The evidence is clear: brooding is the problem, not the solution.
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But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.
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Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
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She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become famous I would maybe like to experiment with acting, or I have a good voice so maybe a little bit of singing. I'm going to take singing lessons, so who knows.
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
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What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.
