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Thomas Mann
(6 Jun 1875 - 12 Aug 1955)
German-American writer who was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. He went into voluntary exile in Switzerland (1933) and his German citizenship was revoked in 1936. He became a natuarlized Czech citizen in 1936, immigrated to the U.S. (1938) where he became a citizen in 1944, then immigrated to Switzerland in 1952. He wrote novels, short fiction works and non-fiction essays
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Science Quotes by Thomas Mann (4)
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.
— Thomas Mann
Essay on Freud (1937). Quoted in Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation (1973), 1208.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
— Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (1924, 1965), 178.
I tell them if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
— Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (1924, 1965), 417.
Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.
— Thomas Mann
Essay on Freud (1937). Quoted in Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation (1973), 1208.
