#2,968

The so highly acclaimed “dominion of man over nature” turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,963

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,919

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,895

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,892

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demonstrate that meaning does not exist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,856

The limits of science are revealed with greater clarity by the waxing light of its triumphs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

#2,796

The social sciences are not, properly speaking, inexact sciences, but sciences of the inexact.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,723

Stupidity appropriates what science invents with diabolical facility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,629

Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist’s opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 424

#2,618

Each one of a science’s successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to the disciple.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,580

The distinction between the scientific use and the emotional use of language is not scientific but emotional.
It is used to discredit theses that make modern man uncomfortable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,545

Religious thought does not go forward, like scientific thought, but rather goes deeper.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,525

Man pays for the powers he acquires over the world by giving up the meaning of things.
To construct the theory of wind one must renounce the mystery of a whirlwind of dry leaves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,522

As it is unable to explain that consciousness which creates it, science, when it finishes explaining everything, will not have explained anything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

#2,516

One could object to science that it easily falls into the hands of imbeciles, if religion’s case were not just as serious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 405

#2,353

The sciences tend to become bureaucratic, just like everything else.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,187

Whoever has understood a notion from the natural sciences has understood all that can be understood; whoever has understood a notion from the humanities has understood only what he can understand.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#2,160

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 352

#2,101

The sciences, particularly the social sciences, are depositing successive strata of barbarisms on top of literature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 340

#2,004

The professional never admits that in the science he practices insignificant truths abound.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326