Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.