Without Renouncing The Support Of

Strange As It May Sound, The Power Of Mathematics Rests On Its Evasion Of All Unnecessary Thought And On Its Wonderful Saving Of Mental Operations.

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.

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.

What Mach Calls A Thought Experiment Is Of Course Not An Experiment At All. At Bottom It Is A Grammatical Investigation.

I Can Accept The Theory Of Relativity As Little As I Can Accept The Existence Of Atoms And Other Such Dogmas.