Friedrich Nietzsche on Science
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #186978: "Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #184945: "A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
6 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on Science
"Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!"
"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite."
"Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?"
"Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. And he requires shelter, for there are frightful powers which continuously break in upon him, powers which oppose scientific "truth" with completely different kinds of "truths" which bear on their shields the most varied sorts of emblems."