Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes about Science

All Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes Attitude Belief Children Church Common Sense Communication Consciousness Difficulty Eternal Life Eternity Ethics Genius Giving Giving Up Happiness History Home Knowledge Language Learning Life Logic Lying Math Mathematics Philosophy Progress Purpose Reality Science quotes Simplicity Soul Stupidity Talent Truth Understanding Wall Wisdom Writing

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical, Sleep, Science

"Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 5e, 1980.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science, Understanding, Mathematics

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science, Mathematics, Process

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik Wright (1967). “Remarks on the foundations of mathematics”

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science, Yield, Doe

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Giving Up, Writing, Science

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes about Science

You May Also Like: