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Quotation from Popular Scientific Lectures by Ernst Mach
“What we have learned from Socrates, however,--our inheritance from him,--is scientific criticism.”
Popular Scientific Lectures, The Forms of Liquids, trans. Thomas J. McCormack
The opening of the first lecture, after recalling Socrates' question to Euthyphro.
Citation: "What we have learned from Socrates, however,--our inheritance from him,--is scientific criticism." — Ernst Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures, The Forms of Liquids, trans. Thomas J. McCormack. (id mach-popular-scientific-lectures-q1)
Portrait: Ernst-Mach-1900, Charles Scolik, Public domain.
