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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(28 Aug 1749 - 22 Mar 1832)
German poet, zoologist, botanist and geologist.
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Science Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (14)
Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine grosse Fuge, in der die Stimmen der Völker nach und nach zum Vorschein kommen
The history of the sciences is a great fugue, in which the voices of the nations come one by one into notice.
The history of the sciences is a great fugue, in which the voices of the nations come one by one into notice.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 64:23.
See also: | History Of Science (13)
Nicht Kunst und Wissenschaft allein,
Geduld will bei dem Werke sein
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
Geduld will bei dem Werke sein
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 298:11.
See also: | Science And Art (7)
He who posseses science and art, has religion; he who possesses neither science nor art, let him get religion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quoted in Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1913), translated by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1954), 210.
See also: | Science And Religion (6)
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
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 166:23.
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 184:42.
See also: | Men Of Science (51)
In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 183:24.
See also: | Nature (85)
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins and then restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Homiletic Review, Vol. 83-84 (1922), Vol. 84, 290.
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 271:3.
See also: | Mathematics (91)
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 119:29.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:30.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 422:12.
See also: | Men Of Science (51)
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 473:44.
See also: | Science And Art (7)
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
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 474:2.
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
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 549:41.
Quotes by others about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (14)
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 128:24.
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