"The gist and kernel of mechanical ideas has in almost every case grown up in the investigation of very simple and spe…"

"The elucidations which I here offer are, in part, substantially contained in my treatise, Die Geschichte und die Wurz…"

"Regard for the true endeavor of philosophy, that of guiding into one common stream the many rills of knowledge, will …"

"The questions here dealt with have occupied me since my earliest youth, when my interest for them was powerfully stim…"

"The new apparatus for the illustration of the subject, here figured and described, were designed entirely by me and c…"

"That branch of physics which is at once the oldest and the simplest and which is therefore as introductory to other d…"

"The history of the development of mechanics, is... indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its presen…"

"An instinctive, irreflective knowledge of the processes of nature will doubtless always precede the scientific, consc…"

"The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the de…"

"My attention was drawn to Ernst Mach's Science of Mechanics by my friend Besso while a student, around the year 1897.…"