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