Ernst Mach Quotes

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Ernst Mach

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• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Look
  • Sexy
  • Elephant

• I'm very candid.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Candid

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • Best
  • Cool

• You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • You
  • Feel
  • Confident

• I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Service
  • Luck

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Independence

• We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • America
  • True
  • Marriage

• People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

  

  Edwin Morgan
  • People
  • City

• When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Broken
  • Wine

• Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Trying
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Married

• Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Love
  • Know
  • Moves

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Stuff
  • Playing
  • Girls

• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Heroes

• All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Jobs
  • Economy

• Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Economy
  • Mathematics
  • Counting