Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some def…

Ernst Mach
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. ✨ Ernst Mach (1959). The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
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