"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"
This quote is written / told by Ernst Mach between February 18, 1838 and February 19, 1916. He/she was a famous Physicist from Austria.
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