Ernst Mach Quote

We are entitled to regard our knowledge of the decisive conditions of any phenomenon as sufficient only in the event that such conditions determine the phenomenon precisely and uniquely.


Translated by Thomas J. McCormack, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its


We are entitled to regard our knowledge of the decisive conditions of any phenomenon as sufficient only in the event that such conditions determine...

We are entitled to regard our knowledge of the decisive conditions of any phenomenon as sufficient only in the event that such conditions determine...

We are entitled to regard our knowledge of the decisive conditions of any phenomenon as sufficient only in the event that such conditions determine...

We are entitled to regard our knowledge of the decisive conditions of any phenomenon as sufficient only in the event that such conditions determine...