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If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Also Connected Dreams Importance More Our Our Dreams Practical Regular Stable Us Were Would

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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Again Astronomy Cast Correction Doubt Easily Effected Everything First First Time Hearing Light Man Many Nothing Put Required Right Similarly Thought Time Unimportant Whereas Whole Young Young Man

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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Colour Colours Consider Dependence Forth Instance Luminous Object Other Physical Soon Source Spaces Temperatures

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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Always Appears Different Domain Enough Execute Executed Image More Movement Never Place Takes Than Vivid Which Will

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Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

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Topics: Bodies Complexes Elements Make Make Up Produce Sensations Up

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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Adaptation Always Definite Experience Field Origin Science Some Thought

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Adapt Average Average Man Conditions Desire Dominated End Formed Full Himself Itself Knowledge Life Man Pure Struggle World

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Blindness Creation Deafness Everyday Experience Familiar Him His Influenced Knows Look Man Never Occurs Plain Regard Senses Things Whole World

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The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Any Biological Developed Fully Himself Human Ideal Individual Meaningless Means Must Other Perfect Possible Provide Realised Science Scientific Task

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

~Ernst Mach

Topics: Abandon Every Fact Forced General He His Immediately Intellectual Mankind Moment Necessity Occupation One-Sided Philosopher Point Point Of View Practical Returns Thinker View

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Physicist

Born: February 18th, 1838

Died: February 19th, 1916

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