Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Science - Page 2

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Doubt

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.236, Ravenio Books

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Art And Science

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Science, Together

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Age

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Historical, Individual

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mistake, Science, Building

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Moon, Mercury

"Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood, p. 166, 1893.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Song, Science, Men

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Religion

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Becoming, Awareness