Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physica…

Ernst Mach
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact. ✨ Ernst Mach (2012). Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media
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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.
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