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

Ernst Mach Quotes

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...