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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Science

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We see only what we know.

We see only what we know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Belief, Knows

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.7, Univ of California Press

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education, Science, Medicine

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Science, Connections

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Religion

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing, Science, Men

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, World

Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Limits

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Errors

Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mean, Science, Discovery

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Technology, Ideas

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Taken, Science

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Science, Order

"Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret".

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Patriotic, Science

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Religion

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Technology, Mind

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Technology

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Perception, Gone

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.104, Ravenio Books

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sports, Science, Interesting

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Knowing, Study

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Science, Details

The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Law, Keys

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Healthy

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Birthday, Science, Age

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hard Work, Science, Night

Luke Howard, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Luke Howard (1772-1864): His Correspondence with Goethe and His Continental Journey of 1816”

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