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

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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.”

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Author:Ernst Mach

“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.”

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Book:The analysis of sensations

Source: The analysis of sensations

“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.”

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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

“Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.”

Men Views Point Of View

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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