Ernst Mach Death Cause and Date

Ernst Mach's Death

Born (Birthday) February 18, 1838

Death Date February 19, 1916

Age of Death 78 years

Cause of Death Stroke

Profession Physicist

The physicist Ernst Mach died at the age of 78. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

German scientist who said,’The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.’ He spent much of his career studying shock waves and his rejection of Newton’s theory predated Einstein.

He married Ludovica Marussig in 1867 and they had five children.

Quotes

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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

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Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

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Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Ernst Mach Death Cause and Date