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Henrik Johan Ibsen
(20 Mar 1828 - 23 May 1906)
Norwegian playwright whose well-known works A Doll's House (1879) and Hedda Gabler (1890) depict 19th century women.
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Science Quotes by Henrik Johan Ibsen (2 quotes)
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
An Enemy of the People (1882), Act IV. In Ghosts and two Other Plays (1911), 218.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. ... What business has science and capitalism got, bringing ail these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
— Henrik Johan Ibsen
Character Aune, in the play The Pillars of Society, Act 2. In Henrik Ibsen and James Walter McFarlane (ed.), Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts (1960), Vol. 5, 52.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
