4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Science

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on science

19. Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

24. The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

89. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

136. The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.