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1. "Physics is experience, arranged in economical order." ~ Ernst Mach
2. "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 as the creation of his senses." ~ Ernst Mach
3. "Personally, people know themselves very poorly." ~ Ernst Mach
4. "Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience." ~ Ernst Mach
5. "The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies." ~ Ernst Mach
6. "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." ~ Ernst Mach
7. "The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind." ~ Ernst Mach
8. "Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies." ~ Ernst Mach
9. "Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view." ~ Ernst Mach
10. "A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth." ~ Ernst Mach
11. "Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes." ~ Ernst Mach
12. "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." ~ Ernst Mach
13. "If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us." ~ Ernst Mach
14. "Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself." ~ Ernst Mach
15. "Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations." ~ Ernst Mach
16. "A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough." ~ Ernst Mach
17. "The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless." ~ Ernst Mach
18. "Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again." ~ Ernst Mach
19. "The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it." ~ Ernst Mach
20. "To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter." ~ Ernst Mach

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