Ernst Mach Quote

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena...The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.


'The Economical Nature of Physics' (1882), in Popular Scientific Lectures, trans. Thomas J. McCormack (1910), 206–7


It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena...The...

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena...The...

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena...The...

It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena...The...