Ernst Mach Quote

Properly speaking the world is not composed of "things" as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call individual sensations.


The Science of Mechanics (5th edition), Chapter IV, Part IV, Section 2 (p. 580)


Properly speaking the world is not composed of things as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call...

Properly speaking the world is not composed of things as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call...

Properly speaking the world is not composed of things as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call...

Properly speaking the world is not composed of things as its elements, but colors, tones, pressures, spaces, times, in short what we ordinarily call...