5 Immanuel Kant Quotes on Science

Immanuel Kant quotes on science

19. Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. (Preface, A vii)

46. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

65. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

66. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

68. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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