54 Quotes by Ernst Mach

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

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 assistance.

The popular notion of an antithesis between appearance and reality has exercised a very powerful influence on scientific and philosophical thought.

Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions.

The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a claim to the highest consideration.

The very gradual character of the changes of the body also contributes to the stability of the ego, but in a much less degree than people imagine.

The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.

Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.