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 MachWhen I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.
Ernst MachScientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.
Ernst MachIf our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach