Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion…

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Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. ✨ Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). Popular Scientific Lectures, p.195, Cambridge University Press
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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
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. ✨ Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). Popular Scientific Lectures, p.197, Cambridge University Press
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
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 (1959). The … ▶
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. ✨ Ernst Mach (1914). The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical … ▶

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations. ✨ Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). Popular Scientific Lectures, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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