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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

1749–1832

60 quotes, most often on Love, Art and Talking. Part of the Poets collection.

Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
- Knowledge
- Science
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 428, trans. Stopp
- Science
- Thinking
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
- Beauty
- Science

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