The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was instinctively known long before and of thus making it the permanent possession of humanity.


Translated by Thomas J. McCormack, Popular Scientific Lectures (2nd edition), The Economical Nature of Physics (p. 191)

Ernst Mach Quotes

The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was...

The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was...

The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was...

The greatest advances of science have always consisted in some successful formulation, in clear, abstract, and communicable terms, of what was...