Ernst Mach - Phenomena Quotes

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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.

Ernst Mach

The aim of research is the discovery of the equations which subsist between the elements of phenomena.

Ernst Mach

Physical science began in the witch's kitchen. It now embraces the organic and inorganic worlds, and with the physiology of articulation and the theory of the senses, has even pushed its researches, at times impertinently, into the province of mental phenomena.

Ernst Mach

Purely mechanical phenomena do not exist... are abstractions, made, either intentionally or from necessity, for facilitating our comprehension of things. The science of mechanics does not comprise the foundations, no, nor even a part of the world, but only an aspect of it.

Ernst Mach

The object of natural science is the connection of phenomena; but the theories are like dry leaves which fall away when they have long ceased to be the lungs of the tree of science.

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