Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience is due all that is certain in physics.


Oeuvres Complètes, t. 35 (p. 219)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience...

Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience...

Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience...

Mathematics must subdue the flights of our reason; they are the staff of the blind; no one can take a step without them; and to them and experience...