Ernst Mach Quotes

Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

Ernst Mach

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• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Like
  • Write
  • Skills

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Best

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Want
  • Party
  • Fight

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Past
  • Democracy

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Government
  • Practice
  • Arms

• Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Friends
  • Environment
  • Spring

• I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • King

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• Better to sink beneath the shockThan moulder piecemeal on the rock.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Rock

• It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Christian

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Savage

• Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Believe

• To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Money

• I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

  

  Mary Balogh

• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Opinion