In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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