If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
Ernst Mach Physicist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Austria
- Born: Feb 18, 1838
- Died: Feb 19, 1916
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism, American pragmatism and through his criticism of Newton, a forerunner of Einstein's relativity.