I receive mathematics as the most sublime and useful science, so long as they are applied in their proper place; but I cannot commend the misuse of them in matters which do not belong to their sphere, and in which, noble science as they are, they seem to be mere nonsense.


Conversations of Goethe With Eckermann and Soret, Wed., Dec. 20 (p. 181), George Bell & Sons. 1883

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I receive mathematics as the most sublime and useful science, so long as they are applied in their proper place; but I cannot commend the misuse of...

I receive mathematics as the most sublime and useful science, so long as they are applied in their proper place; but I cannot commend the misuse of...

I receive mathematics as the most sublime and useful science, so long as they are applied in their proper place; but I cannot commend the misuse of...

I receive mathematics as the most sublime and useful science, so long as they are applied in their proper place; but I cannot commend the misuse of...