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Quote by Ernst Mach

“I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”

Quote by Ernst Mach

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

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