Miguel de Unamuno Quotes about Science

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Science, Doubt, Ignorant

The Tragic Sense of Life Ch. V

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Miguel de Unamuno

Death, Mean, Science

Essays and Soliloquies 'Arbitrary Reflections'

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Miguel de Unamuno

Philosophy, Science, Technology

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Miguel de Unamuno

Science, Technology, Alchemist

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

Science, Judging, Enquiry

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation