Quote #17
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
More from Miguel de Unamuno
- La verdadera ciencia ensena, por encima de todo, a dudar y a ser ignorante.
- To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
- Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
- Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
- Pantheism is said... to be merely atheism in disguise.
- To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
- Everything vital is, not only irrational, but anti-rational, and everything rational is anti-vital.
- The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.