1. “A color is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, fo instance, upon its luminous source, upon colors, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.”
2. “The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.”
3. “Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.”
4. “Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought.”
5. “Personally people know themselves very poorly.”
6. “Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.”
7. “Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.”
8. “Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.”
9. “If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.”
10. “Ordinarily pleasure an pain are regarded as different from sensations.”
11. “Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.”
12. “I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.”
13. “It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena… The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.”
14. Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.”
15. “Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. there is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.”
