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Quotation from Popular Scientific Lectures by Ernst Mach

“No one disturbs his fellow-men with a new view unpunished.”

Ernst Mach

Popular Scientific Lectures, On Sensations of Orientation, trans. Thomas J. McCormack

Portrait of Ernst Mach

Closing his account of the semicircular canals, Mach reflects that knowledge is sweet but publishing a new view brings resistance.

Citation: "No one disturbs his fellow-men with a new view unpunished." — Ernst Mach, Popular Scientific Lectures, On Sensations of Orientation, trans. Thomas J. McCormack. (id mach-popular-scientific-lectures-q7)

Portrait: Ernst-Mach-1900, Charles Scolik, Public domain.

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