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"A rule, reached by the obsevation of the facts, cannot possibly embrace the entire fact, in all its infinite wealth, in all its inexhaustable manifoldness; on the contrary, it can furnish only a rough outline of the fact, one-sidedly emphasising the feature that is of importance for the given technical (or scientific) aim in view."
-Ernst Mach

"A rule, reached by the obsevation of the facts, cannot possibly embrace the entire fact, in all its infinite wealth, in all its inexhaustable manifoldness; on the contrary, it can furnish only a rough outline of the fact, one-sidedly emphasising the feature that is of importance for the given technical (or scientific) aim in view."
-Ernst Mach

"Everything which we obsever in nature imprints itself uncomprehended and unanalyzed in our precepts and ideas, which, in their turn, mimic the processes of nature in their most general and most striking features."
-Ernst Mach