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Friedrich Schiller
(10 Nov 1759 - 9 May 1804)
German poet, philosopher and playwright.
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Science Quotes by Friedrich Schiller (2)
Schwer ist es, aus dem Geschrei erhitzter Parteien die Stimme der Wahrheit zu unterscheiden.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans.
— Friedrich Schiller
Original German in Schiller's sammtliche werke (1834), 934. With a translation, in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382.
To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
— Friedrich Schiller
Xenien (1796). In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 38.
