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 MachI once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
Ernst MachScientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.
Ernst MachMany an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
Ernst Mach