Jacques Barzun Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Truth, Science

  "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.

• The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

  Jacques Barzun

  Science, Causes, Chiefs

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

• It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Strong, Philosophy

  1964 Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

• Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Science, Men, Games

  Jacques Barzun (1964). “Science: The Glorious Entertainment”

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