If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Ernst Mach Read Quote
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach Read Quote
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. Ernst Mach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. Ernst Mach Read Quote
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. Ernst Mach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, – the colours, sounds, and so forth – nothing apart from their so-called attributes. Ernst Mach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
