Ernst Mach Quotes
What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.Ernst Mach
Quotes to Explore
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving -
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.
Arthur Eddington -
Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
Antonio Porchia -
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.
B. W. Powe -
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
H. H. Asquith -
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?
Sabrina Jeffries
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The evidence is clear: brooding is the problem, not the solution.
Mark Williams -
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.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Immanuel Kant -
Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
William Cowper -
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides -
She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
William Hazlitt -
The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
William H. Macy -
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.
Albert Einstein -
I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
Beatrice Sparks -
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.
Dean Spade