Mineralogy is a science for the Understanding, for practical life; for its subjects are something dead which cannot rise again, and there is no room for synthesis.


In: Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe, Friday, February 13, 1829 (p. 294), J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1970

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Mineralogy is a science for the Understanding, for practical life; for its subjects are something dead which cannot rise again, and there is no room...

Mineralogy is a science for the Understanding, for practical life; for its subjects are something dead which cannot rise again, and there is no room...

Mineralogy is a science for the Understanding, for practical life; for its subjects are something dead which cannot rise again, and there is no room...

Mineralogy is a science for the Understanding, for practical life; for its subjects are something dead which cannot rise again, and there is no room...