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Physicist and philosopher from Austria, born on February 18, 1838, and died on February 19, 1916.

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“Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought”

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“Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.”

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Book:The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles

Source: The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles

“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.”

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Book:Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

Source: Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry

“In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but only in that aspect of it which is important for us, the rest being intentionally or from necessity omitted.”

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Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.”

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Book:The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical

About the Author

Born: February 18, 1838
Died: February 19, 1916
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 44

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