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Science has
been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth
knowing and of what is not knowable.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
Whether a
person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in
writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the
discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
The credit of
advancing science has always been due to individuals and
never to the age.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
Science is an
integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done
by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the
human intellectual tradition.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
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Science is the
only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and
people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented.
People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and
dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is
life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed
into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need
to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital
genius.
-- Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist,
Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
Since we are
assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most
exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make
of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any
insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which
come within our observation must in all reason be to number,
weigh and measure.
-- Stephen Hales
Well: what we
gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher
saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the
Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to
be -- and the non-necessity of it.
-- Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist,
Poet
There are no
better terms available to describe [The] difference between
the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to
call the former ''objective'' and the latter ''subjective.''
... While for the natural scientist the contrast between
objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the
distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of
the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object,
the ''facts'' of the social sciences are also opinions --
not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of
course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the
object of the social scientist.
-- Friedrich August Von Hayek
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