Ernst Mach Quote

Intelligible as it is... that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the "reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms," it must yet be affirmed that this is a chimerical ideal. This ideal has often played an effective part in popular lectures, but in the workshop of the serious inquirer it has discharged scarcely the least function.


On the Principle of the Conservation of Energy (1894)


Intelligible as it is... that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms, it...

Intelligible as it is... that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms, it...

Intelligible as it is... that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms, it...

Intelligible as it is... that the efforts of thinkers have always been bent upon the reduction of all physical processes to the motions of atoms, it...