José Ortega y Gasset
(9 May 1883 - 18 Oct 1955)

Spanish philosopher and essayist.

Science Quotes by José Ortega y Gasset (1)

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
— José Ortega y Gasset
The Revolt of the Masses: Authorised Translation From the Spanish (1950), 116
See also:  |  Atom (85)  |  Truth (241)


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