Ernst Mach Quote

The grist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and special cases of mechanical processes; and the analysis of the history of the discussions concerning these cases must ever remain the method at once the most effective and the most natural for laying this gist and kernel bare.


Translated by Thomas McCormack, The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its, Development of Mechanics (4th edition)


The grist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and special cases of mechanical...

The grist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and special cases of mechanical...

The grist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and special cases of mechanical...

The grist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and special cases of mechanical...