Quotes About Mach

By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as dead as the idea of continuous matter. It was a lesson in the foolishness of once great thinkers. Ernst Mach didn't believe in atoms, James Clerk Maxwell believed in the aether, and Albert Einstein searched for a unified-field theory. Life is tough.

Viennese physicist Ernst Mach, for whom is named the speed of sound

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.