Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical, searching, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical.


Scientific Studies (Volume 12), Chapter VIII (pp. 304-305)


Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical, searching, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical.

Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical, searching, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical.

Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical, searching, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical.

Four epochs of science: childlike, poetic, superstitious; empirical, searching, curious; dogmatic, didactic, pedantic; ideal, methodical, mystical.