Ernst Mach Quotes on Knowledge
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher of science whose work helped to inaugurate twentieth-century philosophy of science. This page collects quotes attributed to Ernst Mach on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ernst Mach:
“Physics is experience, arranged in economic order.”
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Attributed to Ernst Mach:
“All knowledge is for the sake of action.”
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Attributed to Ernst Mach:
“We hold a theory to be the most economical method of expressing the largest variety of facts in the simplest formulae.”
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Attributed to Ernst Mach:
“It is the goal of science to make the strangeness of the world disappear.”