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Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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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 Mach

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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 Mach

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The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#attributes #body #colours #combinations #elements

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime. ↗

— Alicia Machado

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Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. ↗

— Alicia Machado

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