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Bertolt Brecht
(10 Feb 1898 - 14 Aug 1956)
German poet and playwright who is noted for his script for The Threepenny Opera (1928) for which Kurt Weill provided a jazzy score.
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Science Quotes by Bertolt Brecht (3)
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
Brecht’s positive vision of theater in the coming age of technology.
Brecht’s positive vision of theater in the coming age of technology.
— Bertolt Brecht
Little Organon for the Theater (1949). In The Columbia World of Quotations (1996).
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
— Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (trans.), Brecht on Theatre (1964), 73.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
— Bertolt Brecht
Play, The Life of Galileo (1939, 1994), scene 9, 74.
