4 Paul Valery Quotes on Knowledge

Paul Valery quotes on knowledge

8. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

9. Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

18. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

28. On a toujours cherche des explications quand c'etait des representations qu'on pouvait seulement essaye d'inventer.