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Count Leo Tolstoy
(9 Sep 1828 - 20 Nov 1910)
Russian writer whose major works include War and Peace (1863-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77).
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Science Quotes by Count Leo Tolstoy (2)
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
— Count Leo Tolstoy
Attributed. Quoted in James GleickChaos (1988), 38. Contact webmaster if you know a primary print source.
See also: | Colleague (4) | Complexity (18) | Conclusion (24) | Problem (63) | Simplicity (30) | Teach (10) | Truth (241)
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
— Count Leo Tolstoy
My Religion, translated by Huntington Smith (3rd Ed., 1885), 121.
