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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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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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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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
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In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.
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We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.
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People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
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I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
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Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.
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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.
