Ernst Mach Quotes

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

If we are ever to discover the laws of nature, we must do so by obtaining the most accurate acquaintance with the facts of nature, and not by dressing up in philosophical language the loose opinions of men who had no knowledge of the facts

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

Discoveries in physics are made when the time for making them is ripe, and not before.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

I can't stand things being out of place.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

I was brought up as a physicist.

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.