Ernst Mach Quotes

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.

Ernst Mach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916

Topics

LifeKnowledgeStruggleManWorld

I've been out now for so many years that I am not surprised at what someone may occasionally say. It really doesn't faze me.

Jim Gray

I AmMeSomeoneNowSayOut

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Jerry Weller

TaxImportantManufacturingEconomy

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

John Niven

HomeAlonePeopleThinkGuiltYear

After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.

Maura Tierney

DramaSayWantYearsShowGet

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

Sondra Radvanovsky

MyselfAmericanBirthCanadian

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Steve Schirripa

PeopleTelevisionWillSome People

There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn't why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.

Ronald D. Moore

FriendshipGoodCharacterSpaceYou

It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.

Rutina Wesley

DieBe TrueBloodTrueSomebody

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Jean Anouilh

TalentWriteOpenMustLikeWhile

I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.

Don McLean

LifePeopleMeThinkAmericanPie

'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.

Drew Carey

OpportunityGreatMeThoughtHonor

There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.

Svetlana Alexievich

HistorySimplePeopleMeListening

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