Ernst Mach quote: "Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all <br/>unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations."

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. On...
ERNST MACH

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms.
ERNST MACH

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

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by t...
ERNST MACH

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
ERNST MACH

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that t...
ERNST MACH

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous...
ERNST MACH

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possib...
ERNST MACH

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thou...
ERNST MACH

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a ...
ERNST MACH

Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought, an...
ERNST MACH

The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other s...
ERNST MACH

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided inte...
ERNST MACH

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only...
ERNST MACH

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpo...
ERNST MACH

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
ERNST MACH

A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a diffe...
ERNST MACH

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a f...
ERNST MACH

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
ERNST MACH

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
ERNST MACH

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

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to...
ERNST MACH

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical im...
ERNST MACH

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds,...
ERNST MACH

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point...
ERNST MACH

Resilience has a normal rhythm
You may not feel indestructable this morning
But tomorrow y...
NEIL MACH

The earth mother
Loves circles to complete —
So all aspects of life
must be lived
NEIL MACH

I definitely encourage teachers to send letters home. We also put a form in the Scotland Journal, ex...
DIANA MACH

I encouraged Lorry to make it fun. In the Scotland school district, the kids always seem to enjoy ta...
DIANA MACH

These third graders were so afraid to make mistakes. Lorry asked me to come into her class this year...
DIANA MACH

I fell like a celibate hustler
A stained & sullied spirit...
Halfway between freaky an...
NEIL MACH

When you find yourself in a very hard situation, a circumstance that holds you by the balls, that's ...
AKUKU MACH PEP

All revolutions devour their own children.
ERNST ROHM

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.
ERNST JUNGER

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which...
ERNST TOLLER

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought fi...
ERNST ZUNDEL

We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone....
ERNST LISSAUER

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
ERNST FISCHER

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break...
ERNST FISCHER

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural in...
ERNST FISCHER

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is...
ERNST FISCHER

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free I...
ERNST ZUNDEL

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have...
ERNST MAYR

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate c...
ERNST ZUNDEL

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acc...
ERNST MAYR

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populati...
ERNST MAYR

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection...
ERNST HAECKEL

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Em...
ERNST TOLLER

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
RICHARD ERNST

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs ...
ERNST THALMANN

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolut...
ERNST MAYR

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and select...
ERNST MAYR

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic br...
JONI ERNST

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept any...
RICHARD ERNST

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary ...
ERNST JüNGER

Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like ...
ERNST JüNGER

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our ...
ERNST FISCHER

Last couple games we put up 10 runs or so. We're going to try to do that again.
BRIAN ERNST

I think we came into this game with a lot of momentum. Guys were up even in batting practice. We had...
BRIAN ERNST

You're always eating fast food and stuff, living in the hotels. You're not getting as probably as mu...
BRIAN ERNST

I think what's going to happen is that some of the big boys will see that he can write and draw his ...
BRIAN ERNST

I think it sets the tone for the whole team. Hitting at the top of the lineup, your job is to get on...
BRIAN ERNST

They really do some pounding on each other out on the water.
BOB ERNST

It certainly means it's a good group of recruits. It just means there is lots of competition on the ...
BOB ERNST

You want to know why they didn't accept it? Because it's not $600,000.
BOB ERNST

[The city] should have followed certain government code rules in dealing with the property owner bef...
BOB ERNST

You can win a national championship, but you'll remember for the rest of your life that you didn't g...
BOB ERNST

It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we ...
JONI ERNST

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill i...
ERNST TOLLER

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated po...
ERNST MAYR

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, some...
ERNST ZUNDEL

You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the he...
ERNST TROELTSCH

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
ERNST MAYR

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
ERNST MAYR

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
ERNST MAYR

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by disco...
ERNST MAYR

...anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolution" in the singular, without segregating the t...
ERNST MAYR

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth...
ERNST MAYR

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals...
ERNST MAYR

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all ...
ERNST MAYR

...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concep...
ERNST MAYR

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to s...
ERNST MAYR

...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic i...
ERNST MAYR

...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
ERNST MAYR

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
ERNST FISCHER

The push for 'Meatless Mondays' in our military is misguided at best and goes against dietar...
JONI ERNST

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it mus...
MAX ERNST

This has been my run for Bob. It's hard to put yourself in this position but I know it's been well w...
CAROL ERNST

I feel very guilty at times,
CAROL ERNST

I put on my game face, but I am a shell.
CAROL ERNST

The jury didn't like it.
CAROL ERNST

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing,...
ERNST HAAS

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said ...
JONI ERNST

Where there is a will, there is a way.
ERNST WURDACK

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we ...
ERNST HAAS

The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you ha...
ERNST HAAS

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
ERNST HAAS

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions ...
RICHARD ERNST

Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the...
JONI ERNST

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets o...
ERNST TOLLER

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the ...
ERNST JUNGER

Comcast is still struggling with [Hollywood over] release windows. By the time it comes out on VOD, ...
DANIEL ERNST

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
ERNST KALTENBRUNNER

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur ...
ERNST MAYR

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save ...
JONI ERNST

It's well intentioned, but we think it's misguided. If the state has additional funds available that...
DAVID ERNST

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's ...
ERNST HAECKEL

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view...
ERNST HAAS

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their du...
ERNST TOLLER

It's not something we have encountered.
DAVID ERNST

That tells you North Carolina was indistinguishable from states without laws.
KEITH ERNST

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
JONI ERNST

It's not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women's issues. And women's issues...
JONI ERNST

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
ERNST FISCHER

Who always only dreams of luck shouldnt be surprised if he oversleeps it.
ERNST DEUTSCH

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
RICHARD ERNST

The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in rel...
ERNST JüNGER

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farmin...
JONI ERNST

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistr...
RICHARD ERNST

I can tell you that the Iowa way - the Iowa way is to find out that there is a problem and acknowled...
JONI ERNST

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.
JONI ERNST

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the...
ERNST LUBITSCH

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural in...
ERNST FISCHER

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money
ERNST LEVY

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express r...
ERNST HAAS

Let's shut down the EPA.
JONI ERNST

Make no mistake - we believe in the Express IRA product and are proud of the opportunities it presen...
MARK ERNST

In spite of numerous successful hunts for terrorists, the terrorist threat situation has eased only ...
ERNST UHRLAU

What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower income or certainly more frugal o...
DAN ERNST

The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the...
ERNST SCHRODER

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
ERNST HAAS

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
ERNST FISCHER

Politics is applied biology
ERNST HAECKEL

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.
JONI ERNST

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishm...
ERNST JüNGER

If Miami or Fort Lauderdale took a full hit from a category 5 hurricane...the insured losses would b...
ERNST RAUCH

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's s...
ERNST JüNGER

The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually thr...
ERNST JüNGER

This section has one of the highest moose-vehicle collision rates in the state for a rural area.
RICK ERNST

The populace consists of individuals and free men, while the state is made up of numbers. When the s...
ERNST JüNGER

Fraternity means that the father no longer sacrifices the sons; instead the brothers kill one anothe...
ERNST JüNGER

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.
ERNST CASSIRER

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...
ERNST CASSIRER

In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leav...
ERNST JENTSCH

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely o...
ERNST JüNGER

Strong expressions create deep impressions.
SKIP ERNST

does not confirm if someone is a source or not, particularly in an ongoing investigation.
KAREN ERNST

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I ...
ERNST HAAS

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
ERNST TOLLER

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...
MAX ERNST

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and ba...
ERNST THALMANN

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine th...
ERNST BLOCH

Vince really respects what we do as far as stand-up comics go. He's really an amazing individual as ...
BRET ERNST

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer t...
ERNST TOLLER

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday rout...
ERNST TOLLER

I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached sp...
ERNST MAYR

It should be the function of medicine to help people die young as late in life as possible
ERNST WYNDER

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
ERNST MAYR

Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it ...
ERNST BLOCH

We are delighted to have signed a contract with INO. The Christian labels have been highly responsiv...
DEAN ERNST

The distribution of music has come a remarkable distance in terms of modernization and is set for mo...
DEAN ERNST

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active sci...
RICHARD ERNST

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a ...
ERNST ZUNDEL

I think that's a reflection of the state aid, but it's also a reflection of the growing concern over...
DAVID ERNST

What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower income or certainly more frugal o...
DAN ERNST

For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in t...
ERNST JüNGER

Dafür dass wir, wie auch die Tiere, von den Pflanzen leben, ja ohne sie nicht einmal atmen könnten...
ERNST JüNGER

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
ERNST TOLLER

On the face of it, it looks attractive.
DANIEL ERNST

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?
ERNST LUBITSCH

All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwi...
ERNST JüNGER

What we're experiencing now is the later adopters are either lower-income or certainly more frugal o...
DAN ERNST

Unfortunately, people are getting defrauded all the time. Sometimes there's criminal activity, and o...
KAREN ERNST

We have no chance of reaching third place anymore, which is why we are concentrating solely on Sevil...
FABIAN ERNST

I think that is it for us but we will keep on hoping.
FABIAN ERNST

The longer the game went on the more pressure we developed, but it never quite worked. We are strugg...
FABIAN ERNST

The longer the match went, the more we lost our way. Maybe we just weren't fresh.
FABIAN ERNST

We started well and were the better team but we conceded from a set-piece and it was always going to...
FABIAN ERNST

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from the...
MAX ERNST

The U.S. imbalance is obviously still an issue of concern.
ERNST WELTEKE

The ECB could never argue in the way the Fed did in justifying its most recent rate cuts, by citing ...
ERNST WELTEKE

The ECB differs fundamentally from the U.S. central bank, the Fed, in terms of its task and strategy...
ERNST WELTEKE

We still feel it is not yet the time to reduce interest rates. Of course we will watch closely what ...
ERNST WELTEKE

I am not happy about this. I am concerned about this development and this development has to stop. W...
ERNST WELTEKE

The risks of inflation are coming down, but we have to look at the new (economic) information since ...
ERNST WELTEKE

We were not involved in tracking down Saddam Hussein.
ERNST UHRLAU

Terrorist groupings of a secular character and with only a regional sphere of activity have largely ...
ERNST UHRLAU

That is wrong. Germany was not on the side of those waging war. We did not supply the Americans with...
ERNST UHRLAU

We have a great financial aid department ... that makes sure that no student is prevented from atten...
ERNST ROBERTS

What has transpired over the last several years ... is a reduction in our state appropriation as an ...
ERNST ROBERTS

In projecting the needs of the institution, it became clear a tuition increase was needed to maintai...
ERNST ROBERTS

The digital revolution is marching on and entering every aspect of life.
ERNST RAUE

It is clear to us that Hurricane Katrina is a long way from being a worst case scenario, in terms of...
ERNST RAUCH

Three weeks ago we were in the position to have been celebrating the league championship. Having at ...
ERNST MIDDENDORP

I saw he was not the same, so I told him to stay home and play with the kids.
ERNST MIDDENDORP

Yeah, there are always options, but I haven't decided yet.
ERNST MIDDENDORP

Life is simply the reification of the process of living
ERNST MAYR

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the...
ERNST LUBITSCH

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
ERNST LUBITSCH

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocr...
ERNST LUBITSCH

Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all
unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

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