Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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