“ Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach
“ If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. Ernst Mach
“ The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favo… Ernst Mach
“ The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world a… Ernst Mach
“ Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful ass… Ernst Mach
“ But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we ourselves and all our thoughts are also a part of nature. It is utterly beyond… Ernst Mach
