Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Physics

• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Science, Men

• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Healthy

• Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Knowing, Study

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